Which tab is active?

Updated Nov 20, 2024 by Jason Stone (Logos)

I think I remember past requests for making it more obvious which tab is active, but I'm not able to find a uservoice suggestion about this.

I'd love to use the keyboard more, instead of the mouse, but find it hard to pick out which tab is active. That thin bar at the top of the tab doesn't draw my presbyopic eyes very well.

Is there some background in the forums about this issue? Or a uservoice proposal that I can vote for?

Thanks.

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Mary-Ellen, Logos is supposed to be cool. That'd be for youngsters like George. Logos assumes that you already use a magnifying glass to find the verse numbers that look like the footnote numbers. So the blue bar on the tab bar is HUGE!

Don't know of a vote-able user request. And even if everyone voted, Logos fears any loss of cool-ity. Easy of use isn't in their vocabulary.

Actually the transparent bar is their 2nd go at the problem (your memory of user frustration). Their first fix came about when the Logos CEO was trying to use the software.

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

George Somsel

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Mary-Ellen, Logos is supposed to be cool. That'd be for youngsters like George. Logos assumes that you already use a magnifying glass to find the verse numbers that look like the footnote numbers. So the blue bar on the tab bar is HUGE!

Don't know of a vote-able user request. And even if everyone voted, Logos fears any loss of cool-ity. Easy of use isn't in their vocabulary.

Actually the transparent bar is their 2nd go at the problem (your memory of user frustration). Their first fix came about when the Logos CEO was trying to use the software.

You lost me here. Even allowing for your perverse sense of humor (love it—occasionally I get that way, but you live it), I don't understand. There is a line at the top of the active tab (Is it blue or green or red—no, I'm not color-blind, just being silly). I agree, it is somewhat subtle, but that beats the Christmas tree effect of L3 in tagging items. Look for the union label, uh, dark line (whatever its color, black or blue or black and blue) at the top of the tab.

Now, if they'd only bring back the "Weights and Measures" feature of L3. [:'(]

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DMB

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Now don't get me going, George. Just because I'm one foot in the grave doesn't call for 'Christmas tree effect of L3 in tagging items'.

Let's take a look at the facts (example below):

- A nice subtle palette of reds, salmons, and ochre, punctuated with browns, and greyish whites. Check.

- Tabs clearly shown with the present one in use highlighted clearly (no squinting needed).

- Everything as it should be; all in place; just as described in the book of Titus, the most important of the NT books.

Now, without the use of a microscope or high-powered magnifying glass, locate the tab in use below (hint: it's above the evil hebrew interlinear!).

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

JT (alabama24)

A nice subtle palette of reds, salmons, and ochre, punctuated with browns, and greyish whites

Nice? Subtle? <insert snicker here>

Logos does need to figure out a way to distinguish the active tab better. This isn't it. There is a reason those good folks at Libronix went out of business. [:P]

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http://logos.uservoice.com/forums/42823-logos-bible-software-5/suggestions/4360869-distinguish-the-active-tab-more-vividly

I see I'm not alone, so I've created a user request:

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Donnie Hale

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Aug 30, 2013

I see I'm not alone, so I've created a user request:

In addition to the active tab being more obvious, it needs to not be obscured behind the tab scroll arrows that appear (upper right of a pane) if you have enough tabs open that they can't all be visible across the top of the pane. This happens to me with some regularity where the active tab is behind/under those right/left scroll buttons.

Donnie

Jack Caviness

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In addition to the active tab being more obvious

Have been reading this thread for several days, and frankly, I don't see the problem. To me, the active tab is quite obvious. The difference between ESV and NKJV in this screenshot seems distinct—and it is even more so in the actual Logos display.

George Somsel

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In addition to the active tab being more obvious

Have been reading this thread for several days, and frankly, I don't see the problem. To me, the active tab is quite obvious. The difference between ESV and NKJV in this screenshot seems distinct—and it is even more so in the actual Logos display.

It is apparent if you know what to look for and are seeking it, but I wouldn't call it "quite obvious" and for that I am thankful. I wouldn't want it slapping me in the face (Big red arrow pointing to the tab and moving up and down with the words "active tab" or some such thing). I'm trying to figure out what they're talking about with the "red tabs."

george
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what they're talking about with the "red tabs."

Voila the red tab:

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Oops, now to figure out how to paste in an image . . .

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fgh

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Sep 8, 2013

Nice. We don't have that on Mac.

solving it is easy enough; if the user hides the active tab, well duh. But when the software adds a resource, make sure the tab is displayed (eg scroll left or right, as needed). (...)

(Plus add a burnt-orange stripe, of course).

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I thought I'd finally gotten used to the blue bar, then just saw this and did a double-take. A gold star if you spot what's wrong with this picture (besides the fact that I'm using the anathematized interlinear):

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George Somsel

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I thought I'd finally gotten used to the blue bar, then just saw this and did a double-take. A gold star if you spot what's wrong with this picture (besides the fact that I'm using the anathematized interlinear):

Two blue bars?

george
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Two blue bars?

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Randy W. Sims

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Apologies if this has already been suggested; I haven't read the entire thread. But have you tried the sonar command: press Left-Ctrl + Right-Alt + Right Shift + Home while you sing the chorus to Yellow Submarine three times.

You might have to practice a few times to get it just right.

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