Having the macOS Help button in a scrolling view feels kind of weird, but that's
what Apple is doing in the Ventura System Settings app, so I guess we go with
it. I like it better than Firefox's non-contextual "Firefox Support" button
under the pane list in their preferences, anyway - having pane-by-pane
contextual help buttons seems like good UX that there isn't a good reason for us
to ditch.
To allow creation of a standalone note with annotations from all the
selected top-level items and/or attachments. Annotations will be sorted
by the order of the items in the items list.
"Add Note from Annotations" remains when a single regular item or one or
more attachments under a single regular item are selected.
And remove all references to old id
We can do this because plugins will use new mechanisms for install and
update manifests that don't use the id (which also means it's now only
used internally).
We'll want to update the rest of the instances of "extensions" or
"add-ons" to say "plugins" (unless we think we might support themes, in
which case we can keep "add-ons").
Plugins are ZIPs containing at least these two files:
- manifest.json: A WebExtension MV2 manifest with basic metadata
properties and `applications.gecko` with `id` and `update_url`
- bootstrap.js: A bootstrap file, similar to old bootstrapped extensions,
with `installed()`, `startup()`, `shutdown()`, and `uninstalled()`
This is a confusing, bad option, which was already disabled in groups,
and this removes it from personal libraries as well. People seem to be
using it mainly because they think annotations are locked into Zotero if
they don't, which is causing them to ask for this to be done
automatically on every edit, which we don't do because it would result
in constant file syncing and file conflicts [1].
We provide multiple export options for exporting PDFs with annotations,
and people can use those when sharing a file with people who don't use
Zotero. Otherwise, if storing annotations in the file is a priority,
they can use an external reader that's not designed to be tightly
integrated into Zotero.
(As a rare hack, it's of course also possible to export the PDF with
annotations, replace the original file, and import the annotations.)
[1] https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/annotations_in_database
- Adjust text
- Add "Learn More" button with link to sync documentation for
set-up-sync notification
- Show "Don't Show Again" for set-up-sync even on first display
- Don't perform any action when clicking unlinked text
- Use yellow/orange background instead of blue for notification bar
- Prevent text from wrapping out of the bar at narrow window widths
- Use local variable for observer id
There are two:
- Sync never set up (no username in DB) / set up, but unlinked
- Sync set up but auto-sync disabled and sync not completed in 30 days
Checks are trigged on item adds.
- Show "Export Note…"/"Export Notes…" if only notes or attachments
selected
- Don't show export option if only attachments and no embedded notes
(was previously disabled, and still is if all notes or a mixture of
empty notes and attachments)
Closes#2265
There's also new code for showing a different icon for snapshots, files,
and DOI/URL links, like the web library and iOS app, but it's commented
out for now. The bitmap icons create too much visual noise with the
greater information density and hierarchical tree of the desktop app
(not to mention many more low-DPI displays). We can revisit after
switching to SVGs across the board.
Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-T is now used for reopening a closed tab
This is now a View menu option, so macOS users can assign an
app-specific shortcut key for it. For other platforms that can't do
that, Zutilo could add it, and it will be an option if we add general
key-binding configurability in a future version.
Closes#2281
- Select last reopened tab instead of opening all in background
- Rearrange Close/Close Other Tabs/Reopen Closed Tabs options
- Use proper plural for Reopen Closed Tab[s]
- Just a single huge commit. This has been developed over too long a
time, required many tiny changes across too many files and has seen too
many iterations to be separated into separate commits.
The original branch with all the messy commits will be kept around for
posterity
bb220ad0f2...adomasven:feature/react-item-tree
- Replaces XUL <tree> element across the whole zotero client codebase
with a custom supermegafast virtualized-table inspired by
react-virtualized yet mimicking old XUL treeview API. The
virtualized-table sits on top on a raw-to-the-metal,
interpreted-at-runtime JS based windowing solution inspired by
react-window. React-based solutions could not be used because they were
slow and Zotero UI needs to be responsive and be able to
display thousands of rows in a treeview without any slowdowns.
- Attempts were made at making this screen-reader friendly, but yet to
be tested with something like JAWS
- RTL-friendly
- Styling and behaviour across all platforms was copied as closely as
possible to the original XUL tree
- Instead of row-based scroll snapping this has smooth-scrolling. If
you're using arrow keys to browse through the tree then it effectively
snap-scrolls. Current CSS snap scroll attributes do not seem to work in
the way we would require even on up-to-date browsers, yet alone the ESR
version of FX that Zotero is on. JS solutions are either terrible for
performance or produce inexcusable jitter.
- When dragging-and-dropping items the initial drag freezes the UI for
a fairly jarring amount of time. Does not seem to be fixable due to
the synchronous code that needs to be run in the dragstart handler.
Used to be possible to run that code async with the XUL tree.
- Item tree column picker no longer has a dedicated button. Just
right-click the columns. The column preferences (width, order, etc) are
no longer handled by XUL, which required a custom serialization and
storage solution that throws warnings in the developer console due to
the amount of data being stored. Might cause temporary freezing on HDDs
upon column resize/reorder/visibility toggling.
- Context menu handling code basically unchanged, but any UI changes
that plugins may have wanted to do (including adding new columns) will
have to be redone by them. No serious thought has gone into how plugin
developers would achieve that yet.
- Opens up the possibility for awesome alternative ways to render the
tree items, including things like multiple-row view for the item tree,
which has been requested for a long while especially by users switching
from other referencing software
- Add/Remove Dictionaries window
- Better account for the (unlikely) possibility that a dictionary could
be replaced by another more popular dictionary provided by a different
extension id (tested)
- Better account for the (very unlikely) possibility that an extension
could bundle multiple dictionaries (untested)
- Use toolkit version comparator for proper extension version
comparisons
- Localize strings
- Add tests for updating
- Add "(online import)" and "(local import)" next to "Mendeley Referance
Manager" and "Mendeley Desktop", respectively
- Adjust size of OAuth window
- Use bound parameter instead of string literal for Fx78 compatibility
- Add Zotero logo
- Move most acknowledgements to the website, where they can be more more
easily updated and more comprehensive
- Increase font size
- Center window on screen
And remove unused _removeNote() function
We prompt to delete in the items list to distinguish from collection
removals, but it's arguably not necessary here, since you can always get
the item out of the trash. Undo would be nice, though.
- Show both sections even on search
- Add new note creation popups with an option to create from annotations
- Hide child notes section if no parent item
- Always show both sections
- Do not show empty sections when searching
- Collapse notes list when all tabs are closed
- Work around search input to take full width without breaking its stuff
Shows as a menu option when there's a single PDF attachment with
annotations and as a submenu containing titles when there are multiple
(even if there's only one attachment that actually has annotations)
Also removes "Create Note from Annotations" on attachment items for now.
(It might make sense to add that back, though "Add" would be a little
weird for creating a sibling note, while using a different label would
be confusing.)
- Show child notes at top of notes list, with separate headers for "Item
Notes" and "All Notes"
- Fix "New Child Note" option
- Add parent item title above note editor when editing child note
- Cleanup
TODO:
- Search on parent item title for child notes
This changes the attachment saveFile() function in translators to be
async. In order for errors to be properly caught, translators will need
to be changed to make doExport() async and await on saveFile() calls.
(The translation architecture theoretically already allows doExport() to
be async.)
- Rollback all redundant changes made in the last few months
- Introduce `contextPane`
- Show child notes in the notes pane
- Fix splitter styling
- Various bug fixes
- Fix contextPane switching and states persistence
- Persist reader sidebar open/close state
- Fix bottom pane placeholder updating concurrency issues
- Fix toolbar placeholder width updating
- Display titles for split button
- Fix toolbar position when switching tabs
- Add PDF tab loading cover
- Improve notes and citations insertion
- Clean up and refactor code
- Fixes and cleanups to PDF reader
- Show item title at top of item pane in contextual mode not in a
library tab
- Show "All Notes" at top of standalone notes pane
- Add background color when clicking notes in standalone notes list
- Clean up back buttons
Mode button is still a placeholder but uses emoji to show the mode
We're now flagging the DB for repair on startup errors, so if that fixes
the problem (e.g., because of our undiagnosed skipped-schema-update-step
problem), we'd still like to know about it.
Show a popup if DB corruption is detected with a warning to avoid
storing the data directory in cloud storage, a link to a support page
with more information, and a button to restore from the last automatic
backup.
Also show the warning about cloud storage again after restoring from the
last automatic backup.
