Upgrade Storage3.7 GUI messed up
I've just upgraded to 3.7 and the right GUI panel ("Info", "Notes", "Attachments", "Tags") overlaps with the item panel masking some of the content.
Rainer
Rainer
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I'll provide a screenshot if that helps.
The Zotero GUI has always assumed you firefox window is VERY wide. There are various glitches with a narrower window. This issue is more serious than the previous glitches though - pretty sure it will make Zotero unusable on my laptop.
edit the file in your firefox profile dir /chrome/userChrome.css and add:
#zotero-item-pane
{
width: 100px !important;
min-width: 100px !important;
}
and restart ff. now you can resize the item pane (right) to be smaller, at some point you won't be able to see everything but it will have a horizontal scrollbar.
by making the item pane smaller you can arrange the other two panes to a reasonable size.
still see the overlap, depending on what order, how the you resize the panes.
Rainer
We really need a UI that works in a narrower space, and one way to do it would be relatively straightforward. That would be to display ONLY the collections/tags pane and items list pane. Selecting an item would display the item details pane in place of the items list, with a button to "close" or go back to the items list. (Alternatively could open in a separate window, I think there's a ticket for that, but personally I'd prefer staying within the browser window.)
I don't see much downside to this approach. In terms of user interaction, usually you're EITHER "browsing" - tags, lists - OR working on an individual item - details pane.
Just my thoughts, wish I knew how to implement this.
Rainer