> On Jan 14, 2016, at 3:01 PM, Nick Fitzgerald <nfitzger...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Also, what is the plan for making tools like the Memory view appear in a > default install? In other words, without having to go to the Settings. I > worry that users may not know to click on the Settings and just think that > other browsers offer more tools than we do. > > This is a good conversation to have, but I don't have any good answers. We > have a lot of panels in the devtools, many of which are fairly niche, and it > isn't clear how to simultaneously give them visibility and not overwhelm > users. > > Console, debugger, performance: these panels are a clear "always show" to > me. The web audio tool is very niche and so I don't think it would make sense > to show it by default. The memory tool falls in between in my mind. I'm open > to suggestions!
There are some designs in flight that would make selecting a non-default panel much easier by adding an arrow after the last one, which would open a popup with all panels available. So you could avoid a trip to the settings panel. I’ve filed a bug 1239859 for this since I couldn’t find another one on file. Brian _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
