[TxMt] 1001 suggestions in shining armour

[thomas Aylott]

On Jun 8, 2006, at 11:43 AM, Mark Grimes wrote:
> On Jun 8, 2006, at 4:35 AM, thomas Aylott wrote:
>> On Jun 8, 2006, at 3:48 AM, Luc Heinrich wrote:
>>> On 7 juin 06, at 09:54, Andreas Wahlin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Such a comprehensive list and not a singel mention of chunk-undo  
>>>> ˆ_ˆ
>>>
>>> Not to mention the braindead block editing zero-column selection.  
>>> Oh, and the death of that fugly drawer! :)
>>
>> I'm with you on the drawer. It's SO two years ago.
>> I want the files thing to look like the one in mail and iTunes.
>
> If this changes I'd really like to see the drawer continue to be an  
> option.  NSDrawer is recommended for use when the data contained in  
> them needs to be accessed by not all the time.  Of course this  
> concept fails miserably for Mail particularly since mailboxes are  
> something you hop around all the time.  Personally I almost never  
> access the drawer once I've setup my tab view, and if I need to  
> access a file I use cmd-T.
>
> FWIW, I don't think this is a aesthetics thing because lacking a  
> drawer increases the amount of horizontal space required out of the  
> editor.  Given the way I prefer to layout my workspace (http:// 
> flickr.com/photos/mgrimes/159783736/) being forced out of a drawer  
> would force an editor that normally consumes less screen real  
> estate than documentation to no longer be adequately used side-by- 
> side documentation.

Ok. There are advantages and disadvantages to both.
Personally, the drawer works perfectly well enough for me.
I just don't much like the look of it. Even after I hacked the nib  
files.

> Mark Grimes
> Stateful Labs
> mark at stateful.net

thomas Aylott—subtleGradient


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