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pdcgomes / XCActionBar

"Alfred for Xcode" plugin
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Update the window UI to look a bit more like Open Quickly #14

Open tonyarnold opened 9 years ago

tonyarnold commented 9 years ago

:rotating_light: Please don't merge yet :rotating_light:

As per the discussion in #9, this is a quick refresh of the UI.

Screen shot of UI changes

This PR is a WIP, so feedback is appreciated. It's also missing some spacing, separators, icons and font treatments.

pdcgomes commented 9 years ago

It's looking good! I'd definitely add the item separator though.

Also, I've also been thinking that it could look interesting to toy around a bit with NSVisualEffectView, I know it wouldn't look exactly like Open Quickly but having a subtle blurred modern look could look pretty interesting. What do you think?

tonyarnold commented 9 years ago

Thanks — yes, it definitely needs the separator, and something isn't sitting right with the line heights of the text.

There's an NSVisualEffectView backing the entire view already:

screen shot 2015-03-23 at 20 25 55

pdcgomes commented 9 years ago

Looking awesome! :)

tonyarnold commented 9 years ago

Latest changes:

screen shot 2015-03-23 at 22 03 01

screen shot 2015-03-23 at 22 04 17

It could use some actual design love, but this feels good in use :smile:

pdcgomes commented 9 years ago

Loving it! Two things:

1) Was thinking that it could be cool to surround the hint text with some kind of mask (a bit like markdown backticks to make it a bit more obvious that it's a shortcut/macro)

2) Perhaps we should also consider larger titles/summaries and should just support variable height cells to accommodate a couple of lines of text each -- size consistency is good but pointless if people can't actually read what's in there :) What do you think?

pdcgomes commented 9 years ago

I'm getting the feature set for a 0.3 release ready, got a couple of things I want to work on but am aiming for later this week.

How's the UI work going?

tonyarnold commented 9 years ago

Haven't had much time tonight, but the dynamic heights are already in there (just need to disable the single line mode on the text field in the XIB). I agree with your suggestion about some kind of outline around the key/snippet trigger text.

Hopefully I'll have some time tonight to finish that up.