Moving this to a separate thread.... >>Things are looking reasonably good on Mac. It needs some polish, and I > think we >>need to make a decision about whether various widgets (outline, > spellchecker, >>source view, messages) should be docked, floating, or drawers on Mac. > But that, >>of course, is not needed before the alpha. >> > > As I said before, there are now exceptions made for MacOSX that do > precisely that what you don't want to see. So, we can experiment > somewhat if you tell us how the average mac user likes to see it.
Yes, and I appreciate your offer of help. But "how the average mac user likes it" is partly the question. I can say how I'd like to see it, a view that's largely informed by looking at Apple's applications (as models for the "average mac user"?); perhaps others will disagree. Here's my view: Drawers are no longer much used, partly because (I think) it's not possible to have multiple drawers showing up simultaneously on the same side of the window, which significantly reduces their flexibility. But on Mac docked widgets are not generally used. So I'd suggest that most widgets -- outline, spellchecker, advanced find -- be floating windows by default (though I'd like to see them be dockable). The one (or two) exception(s) here is source view (and possibly messages), for which a good case can be made for a bottom-docked widget given their design. Perhaps the best course of action is to adopt this proposal and see whether we get any complaints during the pre-release process. BH
