From: Jan S. <sun...@gm...> - 2012-06-07 13:07:37
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Hi Denis, i doubt that another symbol in the tool bar or menu entry is more natural for a new user. Furthermore i don't really see a scenario that a user wants to open the embedded viewer after using the windowed one at the same position. Usually he changes something in the text and the forward sync is just fine. Furthermore i would discourage using ctrl+w for closing pdf viewer. The user might become a little overenthusiastic and close his text documents as well and reopening them takes a little more effort ... Jan On 07.06.2012 14:57, Denis Bitouzé wrote: > Le jeudi 07/06/12 à 14h43, > Jan Sundermeyer <sun...@gm...> a écrit : > >> he can just close the external viewer and open then internal again. >> (the txs button always opens the internal viewer if none is present) > > OK but: > > 1. from a cognition point of view, just re-embed a non-embedded > window is not the same as closing it and reopen a new embedded one. > So it would be less natural for the user; > > 2. more important, the PDF file is reopen in the embedded viewer at > the beginning of the document and the user has to navigate in it to > retrieve the page he was inspecting. > > BTW, currently, the shortcut to easily close the internal viewer is Esc > but why not Ctrl-W? It would be more coherent with the editing part, > especially if, later, the internal/embedded viewer provides tabs for > many .pdf files at the same time (as currently the editing part of TXS > provides tabs for many .tex files). |