Inspector in a black box

everyone · Post by **everyone** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:57 pm

ok i allready asked for an inspector in a drawer but that request was denied... because Apple is getting rid of their drawers.

anyway i noticed instead of drawers Apple is trying to use those really cool floating transparent black boxes now :p
so i thought, since i think the current inspector is really goddamn ugly :p (not your fault, Transmission devs), maybe a black box instead would be cool

i think i'ld look rly good... so...

any comments to this?

Gr.
everyone

ps i hope i can put polls in this forum...

here's a picture (this one is from iPhoto): http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8457 ... ng1gm6.png

edit: hm i should've posted this in the Mac OS X Requests forum... hmph

Post by **John Clay** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:07 pm

This wouldn't match the theme at all for Inspectors - Pages, Keynote, Preview (and iPhoto) etc. This may change in Leopard, but I doubt it - multi-tab Inspectors look pretty bad in a translucent black.

The info window you have is from fullscreen editing.

JEsTer · Post by **JEsTer** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:51 pm

i agree with John. Based on the picture you provided, the current inspector is much nicer in my opinion.

everyone · Post by **everyone** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:14 pm

hmph... pity...

mehh

obgum · Post by **obgum** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:48 am

Well, I do not like the idea of a black inspector in normal mode, however if a fullscreen mode were made, as discussed in this thread, there could multiple untabbed control panels. I still think we should wait and see the UI changes in Leopard(if any major) and then decide.

elictricocean · Post by **elictricocean** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:51 pm

THe nightly build of apple webkit has a black Inspector which looks pretty nice. It also has tabs which look spiffy.

chkorn · Post by **chkorn** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:51 pm

i kinda like the idea of a nicer integration of the inspector. the webkit integration of the black "inspector" is good, but i think that a full integration of the inspector would be better (for example maybe as a tab).

colindunn · Post by **colindunn** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:14 am

Well I think the new inspector in Safari is a pretty good indicator of the direction Apple is going for Leopard and it looks damn good too. I didnt even realize how ugly the inspector was until I read this thread.

obgum · Post by **obgum** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:22 am

Actually the WebKit(Safari) project has replaced the black inspector with this:

, and is probably what we will see in the final version of Safari 3.

colindunn · Post by **colindunn** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:48 am

I still vote for the black box.

Post by **livings124** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:23 pm

The black box is there for apps where it has to go over the content. Transmission doesn't.

wee · Post by **wee** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:27 pm

current transmission inspector is nice and simple, i don't see the black box useful in this case. anyway - one thing is strange - that i cannot resize the inspector window verticaly..

Mac55 · Post by **Mac55** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:46 pm

I made an account just to vote yes. Anything is better than the ugly inspector currently in use.

macintosh · Post by **macintosh** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:08 pm

I think it would be better to have all the info in one window like BitRocket.

bollywood · Post by **bollywood** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:43 am

Quicktime X in Snow Leopard has a black inspector, it looks good.

Transmission

Inspector in a black box

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