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Hard to find an "inspectable" widget when in widget selection mode

Open elliette opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

When widget selection mode is on, it is hard to figure out where to click to actually "select" a widget.

hard to find something to select

This could be made easier if bounding boxes were shown on hover, similarly to what Chrome Devtools does:

chrome inspecting 2

elliette avatar May 15 '24 18:05 elliette

Tagging some related issues here:

  • https://github.com/flutter/devtools/issues/3926 (duplicate but has some specific feedback from user survey)
  • https://github.com/flutter/devtools/issues/3567
  • https://github.com/flutter/devtools/issues/3712
  • https://github.com/flutter/devtools/issues/4160

kenzieschmoll avatar May 15 '24 23:05 kenzieschmoll

Another related issue:

  • https://github.com/flutter/devtools/issues/7960

elliette avatar Jul 19 '24 18:07 elliette

From discussion after the walkthrough of the new Flutter inspector - we would like to try out always highlighting the widget that a user has selected from the inspector tree, even if widget selection mode isn't enabled. This will require making sure that deselection is supported as well.

elliette avatar Aug 07 '24 21:08 elliette

Related: https://github.com/flutter/devtools/issues/3709

elliette avatar Aug 07 '24 22:08 elliette