>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. > 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. >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. 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 ? >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
