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Not trivial at all as no sidebars in the OS have one - it would have to be hand coded and does not come for free from the OS.
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In any case, it is quite trivial to create a scrolling view within a window (a matter of drag and drop in Interface Builder), and it is extremely simple to get the scrollbar to display at all times.
Here's the explanation from Apple's developer documentation for NSScrollView:
To make sure the scroller is visible, invoke the setHasVerticalScroller: method with an argument of YES.
And here's how we make it blue:
- (void)setBackgroundColor:(NSColor *)aColor
Doesn't seem too difficult to me.
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FWIW, you can just restore your Workspace snapshot to recover the size of your drawer.
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That's assuming you don't accidentally resize it the way you do with your drawers :p
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Good point about there being more room, but the consequence is that there is a miniscule target for resizing the sidebar
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FWIW, the blue background is pretty indistinct on my PowerBook LCD.
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Something for Apple to fix if they can be bothered, but I suspect that OmniGroup aren't even going to have the option of retaining drawers in the future as Apple is probably going to ban them.
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Try using Safaristand for a while if you haven't already.
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OW could optionally start reducing the height (but not the width) of tab thumbnails if you start creating more than can fit into your drawer/sidebar. Once you have enough that the thumbnails would be useless, it could automatically change them into text-only tabs. If you open so many tabs that they won't all fit even as text, they could simply become smaller (by reducing the vertical padding). Obviously some people wouldn't want this, so it would be optional, but I'd find it quite handy myself, and could potentially solve the problem of needing a scrollbar in the sidebar at all.
While there are some irrefutable reasons to keep the drawer as an option, I think the sidebar idea is quite viable and I'm sure many people would prefer it.