Disable fit to width by default and rename linked file settings #8148

Siedlerchr · 2021-10-14T17:38:13Z

Two things which annoy and confuse users

Change in CHANGELOG.md described in a way that is understandable for the average user (if applicable)
Tests created for changes (if applicable)
Manually tested changed features in running JabRef (always required)
Screenshots added in PR description (for UI changes)
Checked documentation: Is the information available and up to date? If not, I created an issue at https://github.com/JabRef/user-documentation/issues or, even better, I submitted a pull request to the documentation repository.

tobiasdiez · 2021-10-14T20:09:10Z

src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/preferences/linkedfiles/LinkedFilesTab.fxml

        <tooltip>
            <Tooltip
-                    text="%When downloading files, or moving linked files to the file directory, prefer the BIB file location rather than the file directory set above"/>
+                    text="%When downloading files, or moving linked files to the file directory, use the BIB file location. This takes precedence over all other configured file directories"/>


This is a good clarification.

Fullstop missing though

tobiasdiez · 2021-10-14T20:10:18Z

src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/preferences/linkedfiles/LinkedFilesTab.fxml

@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@
            </tooltip>
        </Button>
    </HBox>
-    <CheckBox fx:id="useBibLocationAsPrimary" text="%Search and store files relative to library file location">
+    <CheckBox fx:id="useBibLocationAsPrimary" text="%Search and store files relative to bib file location">


In my opinion, "library file" or maybe shorter "library" is more consistent with other usages (e.g. Create new library).
But in either case the tooltip should use the same convention (and not BIB file).

I explicitly wanted to use bib file location as we had it back in the past , because otherwise users think they have to enable this for library specific directory which in fact does the opposite

Search and store files relative to library (.bib file) location

tobiasdiez · 2021-10-14T20:13:12Z

src/main/java/org/jabref/preferences/JabRefPreferences.java

@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ private JabRefPreferences() {
        defaults.put(SIZE_X, 1024);
        defaults.put(SIZE_Y, 768);
        defaults.put(WINDOW_MAXIMISED, Boolean.TRUE);
-        defaults.put(AUTO_RESIZE_MODE, Boolean.TRUE);
+        defaults.put(AUTO_RESIZE_MODE, Boolean.FALSE); // Fit table horizontally on the screen


I think the default is actually correct: auto_resize = automatically resize columns to fit the size of the window. Might it be that at some other point (either UI or in the main table) something went wrong? Or at that at some point it was false, and then this is now written in every users settings?

See the linked issues. If you start resizing one column, all other column will start to move around back and forth.
if you disable it you have the normal behavior like in Excel or any other table application

I should rename the comment to clarify that this option is disabled by default

In addition to the above, this merger could potentially solve / negatively affect:
#5872.

Main merger and reasoning that led to the current default (fit table horizontally on screen = enabled)
#7181
It fixed: #6690 and #967

#6690 does not occur when fit table horizontally on screen is disabled. So that leaves #967.

The effort that was put in to make fit table horizontally on screen work reminds me of the term "sunk cost fallacy" 😅

Sorry i was wrong, i think #7181 was just a major rewrite of fit table horizontally on screen. If i read correctly, fit table horizontally on screen was enabled by default already in 2017 when tobiasdiez introduced his prototype version of the new javaFX Jabref 5.

Okay, then I misunderstood the intention of the PR (and yes the comment is somewhat misleading).

I'm the first one that admits that this feature is not perfect and has room for improvement. But in my opinion it is still better than the excel behavior. Indeed, we are not a calculation software for which infinite scrolling makes sense but "only" display our data in form of a table. As a user I find it irritating if part of the data is no longer visible just because I changed the dimension of the window.

Also after #7181 the feature is definitely good enough to be enabled by default, so this would lead to a back-and-forth situation.

As a matter of fact, i think in future, developers of Jabref will be confronted with similar requests over and over again, as long as new people come to Jabref and have no idea about the option to enable/disable fit horizontally on screen in the preferences.

The reason is that scrolling is intuitive and is able to scale with ever more columns, whereas fit horizontally on screen enabled, at one point will reach a limit where it is just not possible to sustain that option anymore. Indeed, i wish all the stuff i want to look at, would fit on one screen, but it just does not. So at one point (when the screensize < column size; (that includes a change in dimension of the window)) becoming "excel" becomes necessary, not optional. I can't argue the same for fit horizontally on screen enabled.

And this argument holds true, even if there were absolutely 0 issues with fit horizontally on screen enabled.

This is but one reason for fit horizontally on screen to not be enabled by default and i think it is a very compelling reason, but alas, ... i really am curious about how many people enable/disable this option 😄

…idth * upstream/main: Squashed 'buildres/csl/csl-locales/' changes from 495f888637..0cc3885f61 Refresh example styles Squashed 'buildres/csl/csl-styles/' changes from 3b00357..3a6a0a7 Moved openoffice panel pref to sidepane prefs Moved sidepane classes to proper package, reduced scope and merged sidepanemanager with sidepane Lazyloading of SidePaneComponents and removed unnecessary BorderPane Refactored booleans to set Added parse method Removed JabRefFrame from constructor arguments in openofficepanel Converted SidePanePreferences to new preferences model

…idth * upstream/main: Remove linting exceptions not required any more (and fix blank lines in REAMDE.md) Disable markdownlint for docs, because Gitbook does not produce "correct" Markdown Disable IacrEprintFetcherTest, because gets blocked Fix checkstyle Add empty line to have log file rendered properly GitBook: [#34] Add link to config of "Auto import feature" Adapt test to new behavior Add PR reference Remove semantic duplicate class Eprint Fix ArXiVIdentifier -- dot is required and not arbitrary character

…idth * upstream/main: Bump xmlunit-core from 2.8.2 to 2.8.3 Bump classgraph from 4.8.126 to 4.8.128 Allow manual triggering of fetcher tests Fix checkstyle Move bypass to start of JabRef

koppor · 2021-10-18T19:12:27Z

Old:

Remove:

shouldFilesOnOpen
shouldOpenBrowserOnCreate

New:

File directory

(Radio button group - only one can be selected - similar to Autolink files)

Main file directory c:\temp
Search and store files relative to library file location

Autolink files

(as is)

koppor · 2021-10-18T19:14:55Z

This is but one reason for fit horizontally on screen to not be enabled by default and i think it is a very compelling reason, but alas, ... i really am curious about how many people enable/disable this option

Can we add telemetry here?

…idth * upstream/main: Fix some typos (#8157) Removed two unused preference options (#8164)

ilippert · 2021-10-19T11:13:19Z

This is but one reason for fit horizontally on screen to not be enabled by default and i think it is a very compelling reason, but alas, ... i really am curious about how many people enable/disable this option

Can we add telemetry here?

Hi, briefly: even though I somewhat follow development and occasionally adapt preferences, I was not aware of the configuration option in this case. So, I used the default and lived with the "kind of pain". So, the pain kind of experience is not indicated in data that the default setting is/was used.

…idth * upstream/main: Observable preferences E (FilePreferences) (#8165) More checkstyle fixes Fix checkstyle Remove Elsevier test Pass-through base URL to allow for relative URL resolution Use customBase also at DoiResolution (if enabled) Add some code comments Revert "Add first try to check for content type" Add first try to check for content type Add test for paywalled articles Change from http to https for the referrer

Siedlerchr · 2021-10-22T18:17:05Z

Siedlerchr · 2021-10-22T20:06:30Z

Reworked the dialog and added a changelog entry.
DevCall decision was to disable "Fit table horizontally on the screen" as it seems to confuse and annoy users

calixtus

Some suggestions

src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/preferences/linkedfiles/LinkedFilesTab.fxml

src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/preferences/linkedfiles/LinkedFilesTab.java

calixtus · 2021-10-22T21:16:59Z

src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/preferences/linkedfiles/LinkedFilesTabViewModel.java

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 public class LinkedFilesTabViewModel implements PreferenceTabViewModel {

    private final StringProperty mainFileDirectoryProperty = new SimpleStringProperty("");
+    private final BooleanProperty useMainFileDirectoryProperty = new SimpleBooleanProperty();


Is that property used at all? If not, I would just delete it and let the radio option handle handle the other property, since that is the only one, that is stored in the preferences

Yes, I first had it with the radio button only, but it didn't toggle the radio button correctly and I can't have a bidirectional-binding with not()
Edit// When closing and opening the dialog none of the radio buttons was then selected

…esTab.fxml Co-authored-by: Carl Christian Snethlage <50491877+calixtus@users.noreply.github.com>

…esTab.java Co-authored-by: Carl Christian Snethlage <50491877+calixtus@users.noreply.github.com>

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…idth * upstream/main: Bump xmlunit-core from 2.8.2 to 2.8.3 Bump classgraph from 4.8.126 to 4.8.128 Allow manual triggering of fetcher tests Fix checkstyle Move bypass to start of JabRef

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Removed two unused preference options #8164

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