Not the first time I find out that the Mac Rhino UI has something that’s much nicer than the Windows UI, and I’m not alone in thinking that (but yes, I know there’s many command line luddites here as well). 
Thanks, that’s one of my “hick-ups” with that entire tab. The first “sub-tab” is (to me) as you say general details (most important being object type, name and layer), while the rest is just stuff to do with appearance for advanced rendering views. Imo, they should be moved to a whole different tab, so users like me can just close it and never have to see it…