Jabref: New Add Group Dialog

[Siedlerchr]

Idea for a new javafx styled Group Dialog:
@tobiasdiez WDYT?
(My first try with the scence builder)

CreateGroups.fxml.txt

[tobiasdiez]

Looks definitely better than the old dialog, good job.

• I would move "Group definition" to the top. For edit, I would even compress it into a drop-down and for "Add group" make it a wizard 2-step process where on the first page the user decides upon the type of group (and there is some description what each type can do) and the second page is the normal edit dialog. What do you think about this idea?
• "General" is not really necessary / doesn't really provide additional information. I'm also not sure if we should really separate the options into groups "General" and "Type-specific". Maybe just have a list of options and a bigger space after the "general options"?
• If you use text = "%Color" then the text should be translated automatically (maybe it wasn't % as modifier...just have a look at the other dialogs)

Thanks that you attack this "Baustelle" 😄

[Siedlerchr]

Found a nice idea for a Wizard like thing:
http://www.guigarage.com/2014/05/datafx-tutorial-3/

[Siedlerchr]

I have now separated the dialog in two parts

[tobiasdiez]

I like it! Maybe still move the "Options" to the second page...not sure through. @JabRef/developers what you do you think?

In my opinion the icon and color can be put on the same line (with the icon first).

[Siedlerchr]

Regarding Icon I had the idea to integrate an ImageView component with a File Chooser, so that user direclty can open the icon/image from their file system

[tobiasdiez]

Right now the icon only allows a string (the identifier in the materialdesigns font) and not a path. Thus it is probably preferable to show a list of (predefined) icons instead of a file chooser.

[Siedlerchr]

Yes, I will take this into account and maybe probide a list with images/icons to browse from

[Siedlerchr]

So, my current idea is to use an auto complete text box (and I hope it will work) for searching the icons like it is possible on the website
http://fontawesome.io/icons/

[matthiasgeiger]

Is this Icon stuff really worth the effort?

I would also prefer to have only a single dialog with the ability to switch from one type to another during creation of a group...

[Siedlerchr]

@matthiasgeiger That icon stuff is just some nice to have stuff.
My idea is that when you add a group this wizard is shown and when you right click on the group -> Edit defintion (name etcs ) and switch group type. Which then just would select the right dialog page of the wizard - with the ability to go back/forward to the other page.

In my opinion this is useful as I sometimes just want to edit the name of a group or the type.

[tobiasdiez]

As soon as the new javafx dialog is ready, the swing compatibility workaround introduced in https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/2727/files#diff-6c6d2c1a2528d4dc593f3844f5c680d2R129 should be removed again.

[Clarke92]

Hi guys, is this one still available? I would love to fix some issues for you!

[Siedlerchr]

@Clarke92 Hey, thanks for the interesting in contributing! Yes, you can surely take my PR where I added the fxml files as a starting point: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/2643

To get started, have a look at our Contributing guide.

[tobiasdiez]

Since this dialog is now converted to JavaFX, there is no real urge to redesign it (PRs in this direction are of course welcome).