Block Inspector

[T-low]

Hi @Marius,
really like the thoughts that you brought up.
Love the collapsible UI design that you showcased here

I would directly approve all except for the third?

@Marius

These tabs are not in the right spot. The cursor hotspot is more in the center, where the actual styling takes place. Switching main tabs makes me lose focus and takes too long.

If you mean these three:

I think those are as main tabs in the right position and give in that position a better overview.
The other reason would be that if for whatever reason you have a lot of classes or other fields that push down the menu. One would have to scroll, and the menu would be in a different position for each block when the block editor would not be collapsed and with that the consistency would suffer from it.

As for better reach or a better focus I would probably prefer the possibility of hotkeys.

I would like to add my own thoughts to your list:

1. More dropdowns of properties for not that knowledgeable people and simplicity.
   

Edit Wrong example

2. I miss some visual guidance that was removed, which slowed down my working progress by reading labels. I already mentioned it in the big UI/UX topic:

@T-low

But I still catch myself pausing for reading the UI names, where no icon is present. I am someone who prefers visual guidance and liked the icon approach better. Personally, I would keep the icons, because there is the space for it, but this might also clutter the UI…

An alternative could also be to be able to toggle the icon visibility/ have an advanced mode like before where just the icons are displayed? Well, this would improve my UX

As even the new version would have enough space for bigger numbers…

Especially for things like Row and Column:

3. The other thing is, that I am still missing a proper concept for the Indication Of Default Values, which are inherited from a parent, linked blocks or classes.