ExpanDrive

A cleaner look for ExpanDrive 2

Jeff Mancuso April 7th, 2009

Here is a sneak peak at the updated GUI coming in ExpanDrive 2

ExpanDrive 2.0 GUI We’ve done our best to redress the ills that John Gruber pointed out in our 1.0 GUI and we now sport a look which more closely follows the “guidelines” put in place by iLife suite (we like to think of iLife as the HIG guidelines, v2.0). We have inline buttons with rollovers, customizable drive colors and icons, shortcut keys that follow system wide guidelines, and we long ago dropped our gross famfamfam Silk icons in the action drop down menu.

ExpanDrive 1.03 — it’s sorta ugly.

11 Responses to “A cleaner look for ExpanDrive 2”

1. mzch Says:
   April 7th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

   When do you release 2.0?

2. Dark Says:
   April 7th, 2009 at 12:36 pm

   I am definitely liking the cleaner look. Very nice. Though I still really don’t like the drive icons themselves.

   To me they just don’t fit at all. With the system OR the application.

3. David Cintron Says:
   April 7th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

   Looking forward to the update. 2.0 GUI looks slick.

4. Luke Dorny Says:
   April 7th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

   Yep, this is a great move, guys. thanks!

5. Dave Says:
   April 7th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

   I’m a developer as well and I can tell you professional graphics make a world of difference.

   How about having the user able to customize their drive icons?

6. Jasper Says:
   April 7th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

   Is there a way to beta test as a registered user? I’d love to give it a swirl.

7. Jeff Mancuso Says:
   April 7th, 2009 at 2:23 pm

   Dave – We’re going to allow users to drop icons into ~/Library/Application Support/ExpanDrive/Icons – and they’ll get picked up by the GUI We’ve also contacted a couple icon designers about a better icon/logo, but that’s still a few months away

8. Dave Says:
   April 7th, 2009 at 6:23 pm

   If you are looking for a new icon/logo check out 99designs.com Great place to get work done.

9. Nick Forge Says:
   April 7th, 2009 at 7:39 pm

   Looking good, Jeff!

   On the topic of the Drive Manager UI – I’d love to see dividers added, so that drives can be logically grouped. If this worked in the ExpanDrive menu as well, it would make the experience a LOT nicer. I currently have 12 drives in my menu, and for certain drive names, it takes a good couple of seconds to scan the list.

   Looking forward to v2.0.

10. Jeff Says:
    April 8th, 2009 at 8:55 am

    Looks great! I’ve used both sftpdrive (win) and Expandrive (mac) and they’ve worked great for me…. except ftp drives on the Mac. I recently experienced file corruption when using ftp; is ftp support in 2.0 moving out of the beta stage?

11. Jeff Mancuso Says:
    April 9th, 2009 at 10:21 am

    Dave – we just put up a contest for a new icon over there. Thanks for the suggestion. http://99designs.com/contests/20440/brief

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