Re: Unified instead of Brushed Metal NSDrawer
Re: Unified instead of Brushed Metal NSDrawer
- Subject: Re: Unified instead of Brushed Metal NSDrawer
- From: Manfred Schwind <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 20:58:55 +0100
Hi Manfred,
Is this normal?
Yes, this is normal. Drawers of Brushed Metal Windows don't have the
"brush" and the brightness gradient effect.
In most cases Drawers are used with big white content views (as in
iCal), especially for brushed metal windows, so you just see a small
border of the Drawer.
Or don't use Drawers at all - they are awkward in most cases. Even
Apple seems to remove them from their applications (e.g. Mail.app).
In most cases it's better to rethink about the whole GUI instead of
using a Drawer for something.
Think about the usage pattern of a Drawer like of a drawer of your
desktop table in real life (*): You open the drawer, grab some tool
out of it, close the drawer and use the tool. And you don't do that
very often - if you have to, you would leave the tool right on your
desktop table instead of putting it back into the drawer. In most
applications such use cases are really rare, so a Drawer often does
not make any sense at all.
Bye,
Mani
(*) most real desktop tables even don't have a drawer. ;-)
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