Search Tool Auto Name Tab
When we run a search can the search criteria be the name of the tab please.
In this example, the name of the tab wouldn't be 'Search'. It would be 'Jesus'.
We have the Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass icon to tell us it is a search tab. We don't need the word 'Search' too. When we have multiple searches on the go or it gets mixed up with a bunch of other tabs, it's a lot easier to find that tab again when it's named after its search. Long names would get truncated by whatever default settings already exist. You could let us customize tab colours too so that searches are always the same tab edge colour.
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The tab edge color shows you what tab is currently in focus. Please don't mess with it.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Agreed. It can keep its orange colour. And other tabs can be colored based on their type too.
If we lose the visual contrast between focused and not focused, that can be a problem but still doable. The focused tab could also be thicker, the unfocused tabs could have low saturation, their tabs could have a shadow over them. The focused tab could have orange text or at least brighter text and/or icon, etc. It could be given a 3D stand out look. Lots of options with that.
Giving the user their own ability to make custom colour edges lets them decide for themselves what colour scheme is helpful.0 -
In Directory Opus we can customize the tab colours.
See this example. My B drive has a green tab colour. See if you can find it.
I bet that took you less than a second to find.
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You lose - I literally can't read dark mode and I have a form of color blindness that affects my range of greens. But you missed my point. The color on the edge of a tab has meaning - you are screwing up a consistent meaning in the application, something I assumed you did not know. In applications where the edge color has no meaning it makes sense to let the user adjust it to their whim. Tab color, on the other hand, has no meaning in Logos and can be adjusted to user whim with no downside.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Oh sorry, I didn't know that about your eyes. 😔
The defaults can remain as they are. The user would have to choose to manually customize it if they want.
I was thinking about this. Christianity has a unique colour palette. Browns, peaches, blood red, off white scrolls, rustic pastels. This colour palette is on display on the Logos Dashboard all the time. Logos could only allow this Christian colour palette in the program. I like the neon blue; makes it look future and digital, but still.
You noted a meaning but didn't say what that meaning is.
The program itself has an overall meaning: Efficiency. Everything it can do can be done with paper books, but is a thousand times more efficient with Logos. This meaning takes priority over others. When I'm having a hard time finding tabs and there is a solution to make it easier, that is a duty. To progress to ever better systems, mitigating the time wasted on mundane repetitive tasks, to have more time for what's important. Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.0 -
You noted a meaning but didn't say what that meaning is.
I thought I had - it shows the tab that currently has focus. Within facet lists and TOC it shows the current focus …etc. everywhere in the app.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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I'm not sure what happened to the suggestion (title'ing the tab).
I don't know … in my mind, having 7 or 8 tabs named 'Search' seems optimal. Some may go further … 10 or 15 tabs named 'Search' but that seems a trifle …. well, similar.
More seriously, didn't the Accordance group (thread) suggest user re-title'ing? Auto-title'ing drives me up the wall (when they take the first initial of the title words in a book). And the first search argument wouldn't improve matters?
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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There have been several requests for user ability to name tabs. IIRC there has been no opposition.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Oh, ok. I asked because you said, "It has a meaning" after I had already given examples of work arounds with the issue of colour contrast. That it doesn't have to be "orange is focused, no colour is not focused". I can give lots of examples from other software that makes tab colours work.
The user would have options on how that would work. If we only want the Search tab auto named, then that would be customized in the program settings. If we only want the second Search tab auto named (no auto name if we only have one search tab going) that could be a thing too.
We could customize how it's auto named. To help with the problems you are talking about. And the ability for us to rename tabs too.
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