Hello @Gregory, thanks for the response. The dropdown is a much better UX than the window. I can just click on the icon, get a dropdown where i can see the feed and everything, then I can just click anywhere on the screen and the dropdown disappears - which is great because I don’t want a sticky window sticking on my screen till i close it.
There 3 important notes:
- I’m a user that has several windows open at the same time and adding an extra window makes my screen even more crowded. On the contrary the dropdown menu stands out because it’s always fixed at the top and very easily opened and closed without extra clicks.
- On my mac, I use several fullscreens, i.e. I open Chrome in full screen. The window mode doesn’t work well in that case too, because the window would open in the desktop screen or it would overlap the chrome fullscreen, both options are bad. On the contrary, the dropdown just opens on any fullscreen without causing any issues or forcing me to go back to the desktop screen.
- The InSync application doesn’t really require it’s own dedicated window, the dropdown has more than enough, no need to give more screen realstate. I have a an called “Quick View Calendar” all it does is a dropdown calendar from the top menu, because the normal mac calendar forces me to open a new window just to see a quick look at the calendar. Same applies exactly to InSync. I don’t need to open a new window, I just need a very quick look at the feed see what’s updated, and then I click anywhere else, and it’s gone.
So overall, atleast provide the option to the user to choose between window mode or dropdown mode
Much thanks