Another feature request - use Drawers instead of panels/palettes??

[Timothy Bates]

On 7/2/02 2:51 AM, "Jonathan Tyzack" <jtyzack at mac.com> wrote:
> Anyway, take a look at this screenshot as an example:
> http://okito.net/composer/Composer-drawer-full.jpg
> How many of you would prefer something like this in OmniGraffle at
> some point in place of, or supplemental to the use of the font/colour
> panels and OG palettes??

The best thing would be to implement the same command for pallet hiding as
is used on every other graphics app: tab to toggle the visible of every
palette.

My take on drawers is that people hate them because they are always on the
wrong side of the window, and can't be moved around. In particular, they
would suck for graphics tools as you can't move them close to the objects
you want to select in terms of going back and forth from object selection to
property manipulation.

In this context, palettes that move with the window and turn into tabbed
panels  if placed close to one another are great.

 
Dr Timothy Bates  <mailto:tim at maccs.mq.edu.au>
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS)
Macquarie University
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