On Jan 3, 2014, at 19:19 , Jerry Krinock <email@hidden> wrote:
On 2014 Jan 03, at 15:02, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
This asinine piece of undiscoverable UI comes to you courtesy of Snow Leopard, in which it replaced disclosure triangles in source-list-style outline views.
Thank you, Kyle. I’m *not* going to add your “hint” to my Bug Report. Maybe if someone scratches their head looking at my screenshot for a minute or so, it will help to get the point across.
FWIW, the bug isn’t that source-list outline views have this asinine UI, but that the inspector uses a source-list-inspired style at all. Compare with the navigator (leftmost) pane, which is visually source-list-ish, but doesn’t use the hide/show UI convention at the top level.
FWIW, regarding asininity, it’s a tough call. The most common source lists that users will see (I guess) is the left pane of Finder windows, and it both complexifies the list and wastes an entire vertical stripe of real estate to have top level disclosure triangles that most people (I guess) never use. That makes for a lousy choice between undiscoverability and ugliness.
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