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From: chari@nueces.UUCP (Christopher M. Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: librarian enhancement
Summary: Why not a scroller?
Message-ID: <294@nueces.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 89 23:50:52 GMT
References: <1331@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1331@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu>, dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>[He has lots of targets for the Librarian ]
 
> A fairly simple enhancement would make me very happy in this regard.  When
> you slide the "search" area over the icons, the name of the currently
> selected library appears above the field for the search string.  If this
> name were made into a pop-up list with the different folder names in it,
> I could use any folder I wanted, without wasting all that screen real-
> estate on icons.

How about using a horizontal row of target icons with a scroller like the
choices in Preferences. You could just always leave an empty box at the
the end for new targets. Maybe even a dock to the left of the content
window.

I hope they add a default for Librarian for window size. It always comes
up too narrow for many of my formatted documents. Also, how about a decent
method of setting relative priorities of workspace apps. I did a big index
in the Librarian and had to leave the machine alone for about 15 minutes
because it wouldn't respond quickly enough.

Chris

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