[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Feature Proposal: Add window tiling for, MARC edit

[Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich]

Apples and oranges. Programming new GUI functionality is a long-term solution, whereas a larger screen(s) would be a short-term workaround to better cope with the issue immediately.

On Oct 17, 2012, at 03:03 , Thomas Berezansky wrote:

> While I will admit that I am not personally sure about the feature, I will say that programming work submitted to the community may have a benefit to a large number of people, rather than the benefit provided to the one person you bought a couple of monitors and maybe an extra GPU.
> 
> Programming thus may cost more, but if done right you get a lot more value back out.
> 
> Thomas Berezansky
> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
> 
> Quoting Kivilahti Olli-Antti <olli-antti.kivilahti at jns.fi>:
> 
>> What I would do is to buy a 24" widescreen full-hd monitor for the
>> librarians needing this functionality and instruct them to use two
>> staff_client windows.
>> Under extreme pressure buy two monitors and a GPU. This way you get
> a
>> minimum of 4 records visible.
>> Monitors are so cheap nowadays (its crazy), where programming work
> is not.
>> 
>> You can edit marc records in a text mode, so copying and pasting
> large
>> chunks is a breeze.
>> 
>> OAK
> 
> 


Alexey Lazar
PALS
Information System Developer and Integrator
507-389-2907
http://www.mnpals.org/