Bug 147928

Summary: Web Inspector: Console split view should take the whole width of the Inspector
Product: WebKit Reporter: Nikita Vasilyev <nvasilyev>
Component: Web InspectorAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: Normal CC: graouts, inspector-bugzilla-changes, tobi+webkit, webkit-bug-importer
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Nikita Vasilyev 2015-08-12 00:30:07 PDT 
Created attachment 258812 [details]
[Image] Tiny console prompt

A feedback from https://twitter.com/glenmaddern. He often uses Web Inspector docked to right.

The console prompt becomes too narrow when sidebars are expanded.

It also feels like the split console is a subview of the content view, the one in the middle, but it's not. It's a thing on its own, and it should span all the way from left to right.
Comment 1 Timothy Hatcher 2015-08-13 19:44:59 PDT 
I have concern with doing this when docked to the bottom. It is also visually weird to have a white bar all the way across the bottom, and footers in the sidebars sitting on top of it and not at the bottom of the Inspector.
Comment 2 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2015-08-13 19:45:43 PDT 
<rdar://problem/22281737>
Comment 3 Joseph Pecoraro 2015-08-14 00:29:22 PDT 
Should we start having custom layout when docked to right?
Comment 4 Tobias Reiss 2015-08-17 06:55:00 PDT 
I often use Web Inspector docked to right. Therefore I close the sidebars when possible. At least one of the them. That way I often hide essential tools/infos unfortunately [1].

A solution to the problem could be to make one of the sidebars optional without breaking a developers workflow.

Example: Debugger Tab
The left sidebar could only contain resources. As soon as you picked a file, the sidebar can be closed.

In Chrome "Cmd+p" opens a search-field where I can search for a specific file. That way I don't even need to open the sidebar most of the times.

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144742
Comment 5 Timothy Hatcher 2015-08-17 10:26:03 PDT 
Yes, we could consider overlay sidebars as an option.