[Monodevelop-devel] MonoDevelop UI feedback

[Levi Bard]

I thought I'd share some constructive consistency-/polish-related
feedback on MD's evolving UI, from Unity's Nicholas Francis.
(Hopefully my mail client hasn't mangled the graphic insertion too badly.)
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Why does the toolbar on the right (don't know what it's called) use a
smaller widget size and have an underline?




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I like the less boxed version of the UI, but some details were missed out:

If there's a theme of grey background behind windows, that needs to be
fairly consistent. This was missed e.g. here:





I'd also make sure the dark border is present here:





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It looks to me like you want to make it look like the
which-function-am-I-editing-dropdown should take over the entire
window (which is nice and a lot less noisy than the old version).




However, you've got 5 px at the top (you can see the seperator lines
don't extend all the way). Also, the top of the toolbar doesn't match
color with the outline border giving it a weird wavy 'curve' from the
shading. You also can't click the top 5 px. I'd say you should just
lose them and pull up the toolbar.

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Your bordering of scrollviews is inconsistent:



The one on the left is esp. weird: you have a 2px grey inset between
scrollbars and content, but no hard line. Being a Mac user, I'd just
lose spacing on both sides. Either way, it should probably be
consistent.

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Why is this right side of the status bar darker grey than the left?



Maybe just make the entire status line a bit darker? We do that in
Unity, and readability is not really a problem (even on 2.2 gamma
monitors)
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