Comments on: Opinions: Drawers or No drawers?

By: Emory

Emory — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:51:47 +0000

Well, personally I hate drawers, they always change the look of the application. The thing I think you need to ask yourselft is if you are going to have mutlitple info views. For instance maybe you have a general info drawer, a date drawer, and a filter drawer then they are usefull if you will only EVER need to have ONLY ONE open at a time, but if the user wants to view general info AND filter what they are viewing then drawers are out of the question. So for a quick sum up they should be used as little as possible.

And someone above mention distorting the main window- what about multiple screens, it sticks the drawr into the other screen and that just gets annoying.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:25:32 +0000

I too hate the new iCal info drawer. It squeezes my calendar so that it can fit on my screen, but there’s NO WAY to automatically close the drawer and then un-squeeze the iCal! I have to manually slide the drawer closed, then manually stretch iCal back to full screen. The old floating info pane was much better! PS: this new iCal drawer reminds me of Office’s annoying help panel, that automatically slides open on the right and hogs half the screen.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 27 May 2005 21:50:37 +0000

drawers are fine. you know it was a big step for a lot of people to learn how to use that mouse thing but hey it works.

By: digitalturtle

digitalturtle — Thu, 19 May 2005 01:34:43 +0000

Actaully the drawers work well for me. I’m not a interface snob and if it works then by gosh use it. If you don’t like it then close the drawer. I do like a lot but do not see it as a solution to what I have experienced in regards to drawers in the past.

By: walter

walter — Wed, 18 May 2005 17:33:03 +0000

i love drawers esp in Mail (under panther , don’t have tiger).

By: J

Wed, 18 May 2005 14:31:29 +0000

Yes tabs. No drawers. You know, except the cute kinds I like to see on my boyfriend. =]

By: chris

chris — Wed, 18 May 2005 13:23:14 +0000

Mikey took the comments right out of my mouth..

I can live with drawers (when I upgraded my mother-in-law to the imac.. she ranted that it would popup on different sides without reason)

BUT I absolutely love tabs… especially being a website designer. Freaking awesome!

By: iGav

iGav — Wed, 18 May 2005 12:10:03 +0000

I agree with some of the earlier comments that I have nothing against drawers when they are used logically, such as for extra options which are seldom used.

I never felt it worked for Mail because I kept the mailbox drawer open pretty much all the time.

I’m not sure whether I like styles being in a drawer in Pages either as it does tend to clutter the monitor on my G3 iMac.

I think the times when drawers work are when they give access to preferences or extra info

By: mikey

mikey — Wed, 18 May 2005 09:19:13 +0000

Drawers: Not so good.

Tabs: Lovely.

Pretty much anything that could be achieved with a drawer could be achieved more intuitively and elegantly with Safari-style tabs.

In my book.

Well, my iBook.

By: Joe Weaks

Joe Weaks — Wed, 18 May 2005 04:45:31 +0000

Yeah, I mostly don’t like them either, unless it is somthing like a preferences pane that doesn’t recieve regular use. I hate the drawer on mail.app, which I always have to have open.