improve visibility of important metadata about a publication in post list views

[Robert Jäschke]

Currently, it is very difficult to identify the type of publication, the journal, and even the publication year in post list views:

This impedes search and analysis of publications. Thus, I suggest to improve at least the following aspects of posts rendered in post lists:

1. Ensure that the year of a publication is always visible.
2. Abbreviate the first name of authors.
3. Provide more complete metadata (e.g., journal, booktitle) as mouseover info.

This is also related to issues #2256 and #2257.

[Robert Jäschke]

I think this is really crucial to make the new layout useable. At the moment it's one of the main reasons why I don't use the new layout (besides it's incompatibility with my browser version).

[Daniel Zoller]

i would suggest to add a little info button instead of using mouseovers.