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Inspector Designs

I’m currently pondering the merits of the two common designs of inspector window, i.e. these two:

Finder’s Get Info panel Pages’ Inspector

Finder-style “segmented” inspectors use disclosure buttons to show or hide individual segments, whereas the iWork-style inspectors use a toolbar or a strip of buttons to control which page is visible. There are some applications (such as OmniGraffle, which used to use a fancier version of the Finder-style approach) that use a combination of the two techniques.

I’ve started a new page on Cocoadev if anyone would like to express their views on the matter.

Posted by alastair on January 18, 2007 at 6:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

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