On May 16, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:

> 
> On May 16, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:
>> 
>> I don't know if this is what bothers Themis, but what bothers me is the ugly 
>> icons in the left-han-pane and also the toolbar and its counterpart below 
>> the main table/cover view area. 
>> 
>> I have always thought that the main icon looks something like a cross 
>> between a barn, a bank or courthouse, and a small house. Libraries have red 
>> carpets?
> 
> That's exactly what I was talking about. The icon has excruciating detail, 
> you can look through the windows of the barn and see computers, and if you 
> look more closely you might even see what the prof/farmer/librarian ate for 
> lunch... Look like Animal Crossings on Wii (my daughter plays it, not me). 
> 
> The menu on the left is equally annoying. Reports and references, for example 
> shows a spreadsheet with heading rows and columns, and possibly with 
> equations in the cells. Such nano-minute detail gives me a headache. 
> 

Just a note from a lurker: I've been using BibDesk consistently for many years 
and just want to encourage the developers to stay the course. Eye-candy is 
irrelevant to serious users (which I'm sure make up the "silent majority"). 

Thanks,
Jens





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