Inconsistencies in Logos User Interface

One of the difficulties that I have with Logos are small inconsistencies in the GUI. I hope that this thread helps us collect some of them so that Logos can resolve them. I will post some inconsistencies that I have noticed but hope that others will contribute as well.

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Armin

Depending on which menu I am on, I get the option "Add a note" or "Take a note" or "Add note". This could be unified.

Armin

Depending on the Guide or the Search or the Factbook that I run, there are different ways how the results are displayed:

All results are shown immediately, even if the list is very long.
Sometimes, I get many results (probably over 50) and at the bottom I get the option: "Next >>" to get more results. Sometimes, "Next >>" if preceded with a "1" or a "2", other times it is not.
Sometimes, I only get 10 results and then get a "More >>" button to get another 10 results. With many results, I might have to clock "More >>" may times to get all results.
Sometimes, I can specify in the Settings how many results I want to see. Other times, I don't have this option.
There are also situations when clicking "More >>" gives not 10 more results, but all remaining results, even if there are many.

It would be great if this could be unified. Maybe we could even have several buttons to show 10, 20, 50 more results as well as all results.

Armin

When I click on the Library, Guides or Tools Menu, I can immediately start typing. However, when selecting the Docs menu, I first have to place the cursor into the Find box. It would be great if the cursor was automatically placed into the Find box.

John Fidel

Good topic.

Most guides allow you to collapse all sections with a right mouse click except factbook that requires you to use the panel menu.

Armin

When I click on the Library, Guides or Tools Menu, I can immediately start typing. However, when selecting the Docs menu, I first have to place the cursor into the Find box. It would be great if the cursor was automatically placed into the Find box.

Here are some other related issues in search:

Bible, Basic, Media, Morph Search: I can immediately start typing as the cursor is in the textbox.
Clause search: I first have to click in the textbox in order to type.

In the visual filter, I also first have to click on the textbox in order to type. The same is with Layouts: I first have to click in the textbox so that I can search.

FrMoses

When I click on the Library, Guides or Tools Menu, I can immediately start typing. However, when selecting the Docs menu, I first have to place the cursor into the Find box. It would be great if the cursor was automatically placed into the Find box.

Yes! Same with the Copy Bible Verse tool. I think all of the input fields should be active and ready to go when switching to their respective tabs or windows.

Armin

In a Passage List, I can insert a heading using right-click. However, this does not work in a Clippings document. It would be great if I could also have headings in Clippings.

Armin

If I do a Basic Search in "All Resources". I can order the books in my downloaded library by "Ranked", "By Resource", or "By Count". However, if I do the same Basic Search in "Everything", I do not get these sorting options for the books in my downloaded library. It would be great if this sorting would be possible in all search results.

Armin

In addition, in the left search panel I get 100 results displayed in one go. In the right search panel, I get only 10 search results displayed.

The way how I get more search results also is different:

Armin

Logos is very inconsistent when it comes to displaying additional search results. Here is one very unpractical example:

This search has 372 results but when I click on "More >>" I only get 5 more results. I have to press this button 74 times to get to the end of the list!

godfredaurel

Mine is about the hebrew/greek text font that are not at all consistent in different panels, just for example the information panel. I hope that Logos will try to improve the consistency of fonts on different panels, because if i choose a given font in the setting to be shown up in my main screen, it's because that font pleases me in my eyes and sometime, let's just admit it, some fonts are more readable than other fonts. Thanks.

SineNomine

Vote: https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/address-gui-inconsistencies

Armin

If I select text, then highlight it by clicking on one of the color icons in the pop-up, a "highlight" is created in the Notes Tool. When I then select again the same text and click on "Remove Highlighting" in the pop-up, the highlight disappears. However, the Notes Tool still shows the selected text under the filter "Highlights". Unless I go into the Notes Tool, select the "Highlight" and then click "Delete this note" (by the way, it is a highlight, not a note), I cannot delete this already removed highlight. - This is very weird.

Bill

I agree, I posted it here https://community.logos.com/forums/p/198131/1148249.aspx#1148249

Armin

I agree, I posted it here https://community.logos.com/forums/p/198131/1148249.aspx#1148249

Thanks, Bill, for pointing this out. Yes, it is another inconsistency.

Armin

If I select text, then highlight it by clicking on one of the color icons in the pop-up, a "highlight" is created in the Notes Tool. When I then select again the same text and click on "Remove Highlighting" in the pop-up, the highlight disappears. However, the Notes Tool still shows the selected text under the filter "Highlights". Unless I go into the Notes Tool, select the "Highlight" and then click "Delete this note" (by the way, it is a highlight, not a note), I cannot delete this already removed highlight. - This is very weird.

I noticed that I have quite a few of these orphaned "highlights", i,.e., they are still in my Notes but neither contain a note nor do they highlight anything. Having filtered my Highlights by "Text Range" (rather than Reference), I still have several thousand highlights. A few of them are orphaned. How can I filter them so that I can delete all orphaned highlights? I don't want to go through all my highlights individually.

Armin

The following is maybe more a bug than an inconsistency. Sometimes, my courses tool displays only the video, sometimes video and text. It is not clear to me when I get what. My preference is to have video and text. This is on a Mac.

Armin

I still have several thousand highlights. A few of them are orphaned. How can I filter them so that I can delete all orphaned highlights?

Bump

Kiyah

If I do a Basic Search in "All Resources". I can order the books in my downloaded library by "Ranked", "By Resource", or "By Count". However, if I do the same Basic Search in "Everything", I do not get these sorting options for the books in my downloaded library. It would be great if this sorting would be possible in all search results.

I would really really love it Faithlife would prioritize fixing this inconsistency. Like for 9.11. This is probably my most frequently encountered (and annoying) interface inconsistency. And I almost always prefer to sort by resource and always want to have that option. I actually view this as a Bug rather than an inconsistency.

Dave Hooton

I would really really love it Faithlife would prioritize fixing this inconsistency. Like for 9.11. This is probably my most frequently encountered (and annoying) interface inconsistency. And I almost always prefer to sort by resource and always want to have that option. I actually view this as a Bug rather than an inconsistency.

You are responding to a 1 year old post when you should start a new thread for the issue if you regard it as a Bug.

My opinion is that Everything is a very different Search mode, and deliberately presents a few results by Rank and then invites you to search All Resources; which exits Everything and allows you to search/sort by Resource. Everything also presents a few results from a Bible Search of your preferred bible. It is a mode that I avoid.

SineNomine

If I do a Basic Search in "All Resources". I can order the books in my downloaded library by "Ranked", "By Resource", or "By Count". However, if I do the same Basic Search in "Everything", I do not get these sorting options for the books in my downloaded library. It would be great if this sorting would be possible in all search results.

I would really really love it Faithlife would prioritize fixing this inconsistency.

It is definitely an odd inconsistency. Perhaps there is some obscure reason for it, but it eludes me at the moment.