| GUI options + additional menu item [message #2015] |
Thu, 30 July 2026 11:57  |
qmstaff
Messages: 2
Registered: November 2023
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Hi. I'm a great fan of this app as an academic who regularly has to chase up quotes and ideas from across many sources. I have a few suggestions for ease of use.
1. Would it be possible to provide options to completely hide items in the left hand sidebar, e.g. Location, age, Item Kind, Extension etc...? This would declutter the GUI for users who don't use certain filters. For example I only use the search sources options, so having all the other options there is distracting. Especially as the sidebar cannot be entirely hidden.
2. Relatedly, would it be possible to make the left-hand sidebar entirely collapsible?
3. Perhaps I'm missing this, but could we have a menu item for 'open with external application' so that a keyboard shortcut can be assigned to it? For me this is a regularly used function, and I much prefer keyboard only control to mousing over to foxtrot, selecting the toolbar item or right-clicking.
Thank you and thanks again for the excellent software.
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| Re: GUI options + additional menu item [message #2016 is a reply to message #2015] |
Thu, 30 July 2026 16:09  |
FoxTrot Engineering
Messages: 434
Registered: April 2020
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1. 2. No, the left sidebar cannot be hidden or collapsed: automatic categorization is a key feature of FoxTrot, and we do not want users to overlook it.
However, you can choose the "Tall Screen Layout" from the toolbar. This gives more width to the other panes, but they then share the window height.
3. there is no menubar menu for this, but you can assign this action ("open in default application") to certain keyboard, mouse or trackpad actions, from the "viewing" preference pane.
Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering
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