Setting for Left or Right-hand resource opening

Gregory Chambers
Gregory Chambers Member Posts: 76 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

The latest update now opens resources on the left side as opposed to the right as before. Please make this a setting of our choice.. IThank you.

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  • Justin Gatlin
    Justin Gatlin Member Posts: 2,066 ✭✭✭

    Mine alternates. If I open 4 resources, the open left/right/left/right. I have never paid attention to that before, so I do not know it is new.

  • Andrew Batishko
    Andrew Batishko Member, Administrator, Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 5,395

    Mine alternates. If I open 4 resources, the open left/right/left/right. I have never paid attention to that before, so I do not know it is new.

    The only thing that changed is where Bibles will open when the current layout is empty. Everything else remains the same.

    Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer

  • Joseph Kim
    Joseph Kim Member Posts: 1

    I agree that this should be user-controlled. Users should have had the option long ago, but to change the default after so long is disconcerting for those who have adapted to the old default setting.

  • xnman
    xnman Member Posts: 2,840 ✭✭✭

    xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".

    Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!

  • Mike Binks
    Mike Binks MVP Posts: 7,436

    Please make this a setting of our choice.

    If it can't be made a setting might I suggest it change every five month.

    The five month switch will serve to make sure that a different set of people are upset for most of half a year but over time everyone will get the chance to be upset on the month of their birthday.

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  • Yasmin Stephen
    Yasmin Stephen Member Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭

    If it can't be made a setting might I suggest it change every five month.

    The five month switch will serve to make sure that a different set of people are upset for most of half a year but over time everyone will get the chance to be upset on the month of their birthday.

    I'm guessing this is a joke? Instead of upsetting one group, they'll upset everyone!

    I like the new setting; with the way my mind works, I always found it illogical for the panel to open on the right. However, I can commiserate with those who preferred the old setting, or at least got used to it over time. I do wonder if Logos really can make positioning the panel an optional setting, because why make it go only one way or other if you can simply give us a choice in the first place?

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,483

    with the way my mind works, I always found it illogical for the panel to open on the right.

    The way I always worked in the physical world, I had my notes to the right because I am right-handed. my Bible in the center, and my reference books to my left. I consider the opening on the left to be the left-handers victory. I suppose they deserve consideration somewhere but why Logos? Perhaps, Verbum should open on the right; Logos on the left.

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  • xnman
    xnman Member Posts: 2,840 ✭✭✭

    Please make this a setting of our choice.

    If it can't be made a setting might I suggest it change every five month.

    The five month switch will serve to make sure that a different set of people are upset for most of half a year but over time everyone will get the chance to be upset on the month of their birthday.

    How in the world did you pick 5 months?  LOL  --- [8-|]

    xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".

    Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,671 ✭✭✭

    I'm surprised so many people click a book into an empty layout.  I guess I'm a drag-dropper, almost always the library.  So, I'd be ok with the proposed 5 month alternating approach.

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

  • Kevin S. Coy, OFS
    Kevin S. Coy, OFS Member Posts: 315 ✭✭

    MJ. Smith said:

    Perhaps, Verbum should open on the right; Logos on the left.

    Noooooooo!  Verbum on the left.....[:)]

    KSC

    “Let us begin, brothers, to serve the Lord God, for up until now we have done little or nothing.”  St. Francis of Assisi

  • Doc B
    Doc B Member Posts: 3,581 ✭✭✭

    This whole thing is a perfect example of confirmation bias.

    The Logos folks only heard from those who didn't like where the bible opened...the folks who liked it (like me) never complained. Since all they heard were complaints, they assumed (there's the confirmation bias) that *no one* liked where the bible opened, so they switched it.

    Now the other half of us get to complain. Mike Binks' joke thus  turns out to be only in relation to time, not substance. [H]

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  • Robert Kelbe
    Robert Kelbe Member Posts: 609 ✭✭✭

    If you make it an option, I would prefer a third option, to open neither on the left or right, but in the full window, and that way I can always drag it to one side or the other. This works better when using Logos with multiple windows. 

  • Wolfgang Schneider
    Wolfgang Schneider Member Posts: 678 ✭✭

    If you make it an option, I would prefer a third option, to open neither on the left or right, but in the full window, and that way I can always drag it to one side or the other. This works better when using Logos with multiple windows. 

    Why open it full workspace and then drag it to where you would actually like to have it open?  I drag it there immediately ... the only problem with that are entries in a shortcut folder which can't be dragged and only open on click

    Wolfgang Schneider

    (BibelCenter)

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,671 ✭✭✭

     ... the only problem with that are entries in a shortcut folder which can't be dragged and only open on click

    Yep ... that's been a long-standing problem. And the right-side menu items pop everywhere.

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

  • Robert Kelbe
    Robert Kelbe Member Posts: 609 ✭✭✭

    Why open it full workspace and then drag it to where you would actually like to have it open?  I drag it there immediately ... the only problem with that are entries in a shortcut folder which can't be dragged and only open on click

    I find clicking is easier/more mindless than dragging, and I often forget to drag-to-open, plus as you said, some things (like sermons in radial view) are not draggable.