Re: NSDrawer in System Pref Pane
Re: NSDrawer in System Pref Pane
- Subject: Re: NSDrawer in System Pref Pane
- From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 15:31:01 -0400
Which isn't to say I'm discouraging you from trying it just to see
if it works. There's nothing like learning new tricks. It'd just be
best not to take this non-standard approach in a shipping app. The
standardized UI is what makes Macs so great (and easy to use /
understand).
The grandmother test is always a good one. In other words, my
grandmother should be able to easily understand how your prefpane
works just by looking at it. If it confuses her, it's probably not a
good design.
Imagine the bewildered look on poor Grandma's face when a drawer
suddenly pops out of her System Preferences window when she's trying
to configure her hot new TCP-over-FireWire network for her Hard
Christian Rock band. It may very well give her a heart attack!
;-)
--
I.S.
On May 11, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Robert Walker wrote:
One final suggestion: Do without the drawer. Users don't expect
drawers to appear on the system preferences window. Why should
your prefpane be any different?
As a long time Mac user (and as a developer) I agree,
wholeheartedly, with this suggestion. This would be very annoying
to me, and would prompt me to uninstall the preference pane
immediately. If you have too much content to fit reasonably inside
the preference pane consider other options. Like adding a tab view
inside the preference pane, or even providing the configuration in
a separate utility application (/Applications/Utilities would be a
good place to install that).
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