[bt-devel] [ bibletime-Feature Requests-2105653 ] Book list combo box

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Feature Requests item #2105653, was opened at 2008-09-11 13:13
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Category: Frontend
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Book list combo box

Initial Comment:
I would like to have an option to select the books from a list instead of clicking/scrolling to try to find the book I need. A combo box like in the 1.5 series was "perfect", and I simply cannot understand why the developers think that the current one is more usable. This is the only thing holding me back from upgrading the 1.6 versions. I know a little C and C++ so if you need help with this I might try to look at the source codes. Thank you in advance, and God bless!

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Comment By: Eeli Kaikkonen (eelik)
Date: 2008-09-11 14:28

Message:
I agree that the current one is not very usable for all people. But a
dropdown list is not optimal either and designing a good solution is
difficult. Here are some thoughts:

http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/BibleTime2FrontendNavigator
http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Talk:BibleTime2FrontendNavigator

The latter is written by me. You can share your comments and thoughts.

Help is really welcome. Creating a widget along my proposition is a huge
task. The old combobox would be much easier. One possibility is to make the
navigator configurable: you could take either the old one or the current
one (or even something else). But that would need extra work, too, and some
knowledge of the code.

If you decide to try, remember that our work goes into 1.7 series which is
based on KDE/Qt4.

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