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Dear Mr. I have been unable to install on Ubuntu 7.1, however I am novice to Linux. I have few comments: - gpapers is not registered in gnomefiles.org and was nearly unknown. - of course, I'd like to have an ubuntu package. - I dislike the panel views you've used. I prefer the one (more productive) used by some citation managers (i.e. zotero, kbib, jabref). The left panel is used to present toggle views of author list, journal list, year list, a category list with a keyword cloud per category (zotero is an excellent example). Thus the small and fragmented author/source/organization could be removed, and the paper list enlarged (really too small currently). - The reference area could display an alternative view: the formatted citation with the abstract for all of those who use citation managers to fastly learn the essential from each reference, or just want to search which the reference that has observed...

More general. Ideally, I would like not to use gpapers. I'd like that your left panel integers those of nautilus, that bibtex info are tagged into the pdf's metadata, that tracker integrates to nautilus and allows me to easily find files, that additional info (rate, read, order...) are iconnified using the standard gnome file properties. Nevertheless your software seems fantastic. I hope to soon test it. Do you know 'referencer' another gnome pdf manager? Sincerely.

Thanks for the great work you've done on gPapers! I've been looking for an open-source program like this since trying the Papers app for the Mac.

I have a rough suggestion:

Can you add some collaboration features? For instance, I'd like to produce a database of the papers written at our research lab and publish it online. It would be great if lab members could have read/write access and others could subscribe to it with read-only access. These remote databases could be synced periodically so subscribers could be kept up-to-date.

Maybe the database could be served using WebDAV?

Apparently Django can be configured to access a remote database. Is this something that can be integrated into the GUI? For example, the user can "subscribe" to multiple databases and switch between them.

One problem is that Django seems to be storing the papers locally in the "media" directory. For remote databases a paper would need to be fetched the first time the user opens the paper for reading.

If gPapers is like iTunes for your PDFs, then remote PDF access is somewhat analogous to DAAP.

Unfortunately these features will likely require a lot of work. So I am just dreaming out loud here. :)

Hi, Thank you for such a very helpful software.I am a new user of linux and I have two questions about the software. 1. I have many pdf files more or less organized in certain folders in my computer. When I import these files into gpapers, it copies the important files into the folder of /.gpapers/ Michelson

Is that possible to import files without recopying them?

2. When adding a file from google scholar it is automatically saved into the folder /.gpapers

It would be nice if it asks user where to copy the file.

Best Regards.