TIP: Verified Mac Users Only - Avoiding Pesky Book Popups and Grey-Bars

DMB
DMB Member Posts: 13,418 ✭✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

I like 'verified' ... like there's someone checking.

This is another very minor tip, to be applied after you're about to delete Logos for good.

- In the Library, as you mouse around to look at your books, popups are flashing every which way.  Stop, stop!  You 'could' turn off the popups, but that's like babies and bathwater.

- You've done your search, and you're mousing down the results.  The software is happily changing the background of each result under your mouse, even though your eyes are elsewhere. Stop, stop!!  This one can't make use of the bathwater setting.

The answer (which you probably already know) is to place your mouse above the scroll bar. Then, do the 2-finger scroll.  All is pleasantly quiet ... no popups ... no grey bars.  On the library, you also can place the mouse in the column heading; 2-finger-scroll still works.

I've often thought Faithlife would love to sell popups if it could. Popup collections.  BF Popup Sale!!  Logos11 with 11 new popups available!!  The most maddening yet!

"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

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  • Andrew Batishko
    Andrew Batishko Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 5,365

    You should also be able to open the information sidebar to avoid the popups.

    Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,418 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1264849#Comment_1264849

    True and good for others to remember.

    But a non-starter with a laptop screen using 'the power of Logos' ... multiple panels, etc.  Precious real estate.  Covers up library information.

    I remember the problem from L4 ... reserved the popup for titles, so you could use the tag column for no-popups. Later they put a timer on the popup (which means you have to time your mouse ... quick, quick, move!).  Still have to also battle the refresh-timer, when you're tagging resources.  'Battle' is a Faithlife UI feature.

    Then the crazy search grey-bars ... it's the first UI feature where you REDUCE the readability for what (in theory) you want to read.  Like a flashlight that makes things darker.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

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