Feedback UX: Improve array visualization in Inspector

I was about to post this in the New Editor Theme thread, but then thought perhaps it's not really related, so I created a separate thread instead.

I often find myself expanding arrays to see how many elements are contained. For me, an UX improvement would be if I can see how many elements an array contains, without having to expand that array first.

This is how an array is displayed in "Unity 2019 UI Preview" today. It does not give any information about the number of elements.




Here is an idea how to visualize the element count of an array, without having it to expand first.

 

nice, unless it then requires ui to be refreshed all the time, and constantly query array size too?

i've already seen that unity almost dies if you have a huge array, and even if its hidden with [HideInInspector]..

 

The array size is serialized in a single field, so (theoretically) the contents of the array shouldn't be relevant to draw speed.

This would be really easy to implement ourselves as a custom attribute drawer, if we were allowed to specify that attributes should target arrays instead of the elements in the arrays. That's always been a huge drawback of editor scripting.

 

Indeed, it's a huge bummer that this isn't supported.