295881 - Preferences/Downloads windows should not use unified toolbar style

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel Andrews]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050427 Camino/0.8.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050427 Camino/0.8.4

After downloading a recent nightly, I noticed that the downloads window and the
preferences windows use the unified style, along with the main document window.
 I do not feel that this accurately follows the Apple HIG.  There is no actual
written standard yet, but the Brushed Metal spec is very similar, and therfore
is a good prescedent to follow.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGWindows/chapter_17_section_3.html
states:

"Use brushed metal window look for the primary application window and other
windows that meet the above criteria—for example, the Equalizer window in
iTunes. Don’t use it for supporting windows, such as preferences and other
dialogs. It is acceptable to have a mix of standard Aqua windows and brushed
metal windows within an application, as the Finder does."

As there is no written documentation for the unified style yet, I feel this
would be the best guideline to follow.  Other applications are following this
prescedent as well (Netnewswire,Adium, Mail come to mind).

Again, I know there is no actual guideline, but I feel that this is the closest
we'll get for the time being, and as such, the standard aqua GUI should be used
for any secondary windows or the preferences.



Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
All windows are Unified.

Expected Results:  
Only the main document window should be Unified, with secondary windows being
standard aqua.

Comment 1

[L. H.]

Safari uses a textured downloads window.

Comment 2

[L. H.]

Also metal is very different, so it is not a precedent. Metal is a window style
that changes the look of the whole window but unified is just a toolbar style

Comment 3

[Jeff Hume]

Safari's downloads window has no toolbar either.

Comment 4

[Jasper]

I'm going to be bold and Confirm this bug.

In my opinion Unified should be handled much like Metal indeed. Unified is a
very good solution for our main window, as we have a lot of extra horizontal
lines due to the bookmark and tab bar. Unified decreases the numbre of these
lines and thus creates a less cluttered look. I'd also like to add that using it
only for the mainwindow would also create a visual difference between all the
windows. I think this especially applies  to the preference window. I'm not so
much concerned about the download window. But I think that unified is best used
in a main UI window and also when it will function in a positive decluttering way.

Comment 5

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

prefs looks sweet, downloads is fine. wontfix.

Comment 6

[Jeff Hume]

Looking "sweet" isn't a good reason to make bad inconsistent interface decisions.

Comment 7

[Daniel Andrews]

it's sad that the only two justifications for the UI decision that deviates from every other app that uses 
unified so far (granted, it's early in the game, but it's still the only app to use unified prefs)  are that it 
"looks awesome" and that it "looks sweet".

Oh well.  Hopefully Apple will release specs soon on the proper usage of the unified look and then the 
devs will come to their senses.

Comment 8

[Stuart Morgan]

*** Bug 319059 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***