[Biobar] Re: Feature requests

[Jawahar Swaminathan]

Dear Josh,

Thank you for your e-mail regarding biobar. I am glad you find the 
toolbar useful for your work.

>Nice work with biobar.  It is refreshing to see a nice simple tool that
>works cleanly and efficiently.  I would however like to make a few feature
>requests based on things I miss when comparing it to the Googlebar.
>First, having the ability to hide the Biobar similar to what Ctrl (or
>Shift)-F8 does for Googlebar would be nice.  Especially since browser
>window real estate is highly valued.


Biobar can currently be hidden from the View -> Toolbar -> biobar menu. 
On mozilla there is a shortcut Ctrl-J which will hide/show the toolbar. 
But I see your point, and will try to find an empty slot for a keyboard 
shortcut for the next major release (1.3). The next intermediate release 
will be 1.2.1 which should go out in the next couple of days.


 >Second, when doing searches it would be nice to mimic Googlebar's ability
 >to open new tabs for searches. Either by middle clicking the search icon
 >with the mouse or by using some key combination like shift+enter from
 >within the search field.

Thats something on the cards as well. I'll see how soon I can get around 
to doing these in my spare time.

Many thanks for your suggestions. I really appreciate the input.

regards,

Jawahar Swaminathan
EBI-MSD