On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote:
> > This dialog needs an overhaul. I think Search stuff should move to a
> > separate semi-modal dialog, this leaves more space. Of course, we should
> > make sure that this is quickly accessible, for the academic types.
> >
>
> As an academic with hundreds of references in my bib-files, I definitely
> want the search field easily accessible. However, comparing with Emacs
> again, I'd be perfectly happy with a search field that pops up when you
> type C-s (M-n) or C-r (M-p).
>
> >
> I'll try and flip the image horizontally, that'll probably be more logical
> (at least for us westerners who start reading at the top-left).
> Then I'll file the overhaul-thing as a enhancement request.
>
I've modified a screenshot to see how some alternative layouts of this
dialog would look. You can see them here:
http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/bugs/citation_dialog/
flipped.png - Order is just flipped
flipped_alt2.png - Changed place of Search + button "Add as key"
advanced_mode.png - An "Simple mode" button is added
simple_mode.png - Reduced version + "Advanced mode" button
The idea would be that the button "Simple mode" goes to simple_mode.png
and the button "Advanced mode" goes to advanced_mode.png.
The button "Add as key" would be used to take the text in the Search-field
and add that as a key for the \cite-inset.
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
