Upgrade StorageDrag & drop deficient (Zotero Standalone on Linux)
Drag & drop deficient (Zotero Standalone on Linux)
I know that external drag & drop has problems under Linux (see https://www.zotero.org/support/known_issues) but I've them with the internal one, too. In general, it works but is cumbersome and painfully slow -- I'll have to wait 3-4 seconds before the dragged items become visible and I can finally drop them. In fact, the delay between starting the drag and finally seeing the items being dragged around is such that I only recently realized that drag & drop works at all in Zotero. Even now, after some practice, by the time the items become visible I've usually moved them out of Zotero already and must turn back, making a slow near-circle on the screen. As for the drop, it is usually inaccurate enough to require multiple trials before dropping the load into the desired collection succeeds
I suggest the following. For usability and accessibility, there should be at least one alternative to drag & drop at least in moving items between collections (e.g. buttons, keys or a mouse menu). Zotero's a fine piece of software and it would be a shame if a deficiency in such a basic feature as moving items around would force one to workarounds like using browsers for moving them on www.zotero.org and then syncing (which is what I did before realizing that internal drag & drop actually works)
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Zotero Standalone 4.0.20
Libreoffice 4.2.4.2 (w/ JRE)
Linux Mint 13 Xfce (LTS, updated)
Chromium 34.0.1847.116 (w/ Zotero connector 4.0.8.2)
I know that external drag & drop has problems under Linux (see https://www.zotero.org/support/known_issues) but I've them with the internal one, too. In general, it works but is cumbersome and painfully slow -- I'll have to wait 3-4 seconds before the dragged items become visible and I can finally drop them. In fact, the delay between starting the drag and finally seeing the items being dragged around is such that I only recently realized that drag & drop works at all in Zotero. Even now, after some practice, by the time the items become visible I've usually moved them out of Zotero already and must turn back, making a slow near-circle on the screen. As for the drop, it is usually inaccurate enough to require multiple trials before dropping the load into the desired collection succeeds
I suggest the following. For usability and accessibility, there should be at least one alternative to drag & drop at least in moving items between collections (e.g. buttons, keys or a mouse menu). Zotero's a fine piece of software and it would be a shame if a deficiency in such a basic feature as moving items around would force one to workarounds like using browsers for moving them on www.zotero.org and then syncing (which is what I did before realizing that internal drag & drop actually works)
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Zotero Standalone 4.0.20
Libreoffice 4.2.4.2 (w/ JRE)
Linux Mint 13 Xfce (LTS, updated)
Chromium 34.0.1847.116 (w/ Zotero connector 4.0.8.2)
1) How many items are you trying to drag?
2) What's your Quick Copy setting set to in the Search pane of the prefs? Does changing it to a different type (bib vs. export) make a difference?
3) Moving/copying items via the context menu is planned.
2) there are no qc settings in pref-s > search. i suppose you meant pref-s > export. by changing the default output format from "animal cognition" to "bibtex" made the delay significantly shorter (now about 1 second)
3) splendid news
in fact, not only drag & drop but also selecting items in the middle pane is very slow. i suppose it has sth to do w/ the number of references in my main collection (673). thanks and let me know if you have any other ideas to try out and/or speed things up
Can you provide a Debug ID for a drag set to BibTeX and another for a drag set to Animal Cognition? Is it the same for other styles, or is that one slower?
As a temporary workaround, if you don't need Quick Copy you could set "Disable Quick Copy when dragging more than [x] items" to 0.
adamsmith, I don't have any extra add-ons