November 25, 2003 — 10:31
Toggle Toolbar Discoverability (and MacOS X Menu Layout)
Dave Yang comments on his first impressions of Central, with a focus on the useability of the Central UI, including this comment on the toolbar:
It'd be nice if there is a smaller (scaled down) version of the toolbar icons. Right now it is either big icons or no toolbar.
I think I prefer using Central without the toolbar, it looks a lot cleaner. But until now I didn't notice you could actually hide the Toolbar! I'm a Mac user, I guess there's two possible reasons this eluded me:
- In most Mac applications, the show/hide toolbar command is in the View menu. In Central it's under the Window menu
- There's no toggle toolbar button in the titlebar of the window
Actually, now I look at the menu layout, on the Mac I think there are strong arguments for:
- Moving the Zoom command from the Window menu to the View menu
- Removing the Preferences… command from the View menu
- Moving the Console command from the View menu to the Window menu (and have it toggle between Show Console and Hide Console)