On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW <v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl> wrote: >>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: >> > > At least, your view will be much closer to the "average mac user" than > mine probably. > >>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. > > Drawers are gone.
Good -- thanks. >> 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). > > Ok, they are dockable by default. So only the default docked/floating > setting is different. Yes. >>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. > > This is the same as on the other platforms. Yes. > What about Full-screen mode ? There is now an exception that for mac the > outline is docked in full-screen mode, while it is a drawer otherwise. > Do you prefer a docked or floating outline in full-screen mode ? Here I think I'd prefer docked. (Currently, adv. find is floating, and it seems to work better when I dock it in full-screen mode. When both outline and adv. find are docked on the same side, there's a tab that allows switching between them.) Thanks again! BH >>Perhaps the best course of action is to adopt this proposal and see > whether we >>get any complaints during the pre-release process. > > I agree. > > Vincent >
