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.
I think I speak for most of the "kill the drawer" crowd when I say this: We don't want to just kill the drawer and replace it with nothing -- we want it to be replaced with a very similar pane but with improved usability and slightly better usage of screen real estate. Just as Apple did with Mail.app. There should still be an option to hide the pane altogether just as there is now with the drawer. But the most significant difference is that when made visible, the pane would grow *inward* reducing the size of your code view rather than the way the current way the drawer opens *outward* whether there's enough space available or not.
I'm frankly at a complete loss to understand how anyone could think current drawer functionality is better for usability in this regard. Anyone care to enlighten me? ;-)
Sean
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