BUGS: Highlighting Panel + "Find" Hotkey

Aaron Hamilton
Aaron Hamilton Member Posts: 755 ✭✭✭

I have identified what I consider to be two bugs/inconsistencies.

  1. In the "Notes" tab, clicking "Highlighting" opens the Highlight panel. However, clicking it again does not close the highlighting panel. This is inconsistent behavior. For example, if I click "Favorites" on the "Home" tab, the favorites panel appears and the "Favorites" button changes color. If I click it again, the favorites panel disappears and the "Favorites" button returns to normal. I would expect the "Highlighting" button to behave identically.
  2. Ctrl+F opens the "Find" search. But hitting Ctrl+F again does not close the "Find" search. I would expect the hotkey to toggle on/off, as is usually the case with hotkeys.

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 32,468

    In the "Notes" tab, clicking "Highlighting" opens the Highlight panel. However, clicking it again does not close the highlighting panel. This is inconsistent behavior. For example, if I click "Favorites" on the "Home" tab, the favorites panel appears and the "Favorites" button changes color. If I click it again, the favorites panel disappears and the "Favorites" button returns to normal. I would expect the "Highlighting" button to behave identically.

    I wouldn't expect clicking Highlighting again to close the Highlighting panel as it has opened it in a totally different panel - unlike Favorites which is a pane in the same panel. As such, once the Highlighting panel is open it is "disconnected" from the resource that opened it.

    Ctrl+F opens the "Find" search. But hitting Ctrl+F again does not close the "Find" search. I would expect the hotkey to toggle on/off, as is usually the case with hotkeys.

    This seems standard behaviour for this particular hotkey. If you use it in a browser when accessing this forum, and then use it again, the find box stays open

  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member Posts: 755 ✭✭✭
    edited 4:09PM

    Both solid points.

    I still think using the hotkey again to close the Find search would be more consistent with how most Logos hotkeys behave, but I can see the case for keeping it as is. However, I'm not sure how adding the functionality of being able to close it by using the hot key again would hurt anything.

    I see what you mean with the "Highlighting" button. I'll admit to still mixing up panes/panels. I suppose this is why they designed the "History" button as they did. They wanted to differentiate it from the larger History tool that opens in a separate panel. Nonetheless, the "Highlighting" button is the only button on the new toolbar that behaves this way: making something pop up alongside the resource that doesn't go away when the button is tapped again. That in and of itself is an inconsistency. But I don't disagree with you.