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Re: Setting up searches in Xcode


On Jul 22, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:11:13 -0400, Laurence Harris <email@hidden> said: 

On Jul 20, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote:

In any open dialog box hit command-shift-g and you can go to an
arbitrary path including ones normally hidden in the standard open
dialog.


Ah, I didn't realize that. There's no indication in the interface and
I've never used that. I'm just not a path kind of guy. I was
initially drawn to the Mac because it didn't require command line
interfaces, cryptic commands, and typing out paths. I didn't like
those things almost 20 years ago and I don't like them any more now
than I did then.

The people on the Xcode-Users list are programmers.

So? As someone who has been writing Mac software for probably 15 years and doing it for a living for over 10, I think I can describe myself as a programmer.

You won't win much
sympathy here for a point of view that says "I'm on Mac OS X but I don't
really want to know from any power-user Mac OS X features." m.

I didn't say anything about not wanting to know. Please don't misquote me. I simply said I didn't know, and that's probably because I never sat at my Mac wondering if I could specify something in an open file dialog by typing a path. Until this occasion I have never needed to know about this hidden feature, and I still maintain that requiring the use of a hidden feature is poor interface design, whether the user is a programmer or not.

I find it unfortunate that Mac OS X development seems to be targeted at experienced programmers and I wonder to what extent it discourages people who would like to try their hand at Mac programming if they need to have power user skills plus know some Unix, *and* the Mac Toolbox/Cocoa (together with their diverse and often inadequate sources of documentation).

Larry
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