Re: XCode usable?
Re: XCode usable?
- Subject: Re: XCode usable?
- From: "Ben Kennedy" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:23:09 -0500
- Organization: Zygoat Creative Technical Services
Fellows,
I hate "me too" posts, but I feel I have to chime in with almost blanket
agreement about all of the points you've made.
So far on this list I have tried to spend my effort complaining about
precise issues that seem like they might be dealt with through the course
of bug fixing. But on the whole, the usability of Xcode has migrated
down several notches from PB.
I have to wonder if all of the worker bees at Apple have 23" cinema
displays whereupon they can afford to keep the requisite piles of windows
and space-wasting panes open all the time.
-ben
On 04 11 2003 at 8:43 am -0500, Steve Roy wrote:
>Dix Lorenz <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> In PB it was reasonable to use the project-window for just the tree and
>> not having an editor right next to it, basically working as you would
>> in CW. In XCode it isn't: I know I can collapse the editor-part, but
>> when I have compile-errors, I have to doubleclick the file in the
>> projectwindow, scroll until I find a small red "x" and hover with the
>> mouse over it to see the tooltip. Or use the buildwindow, but the
>> editor there is gone, for no reason I can think of.
>
>Your reaction mirrors some of mine. I find Xcode scatters things around
>too much
>in the UI. The lack of editor in the Build window is kinda weird. It means I
>have to double-click on each error to open the separate editor window
with the
>file in it. I guess this problem is made worse for me because I'm doing
>Java and
>Xcode doesn't support the Errors and Warnings file group for Java at this
>point.
>
>The search is another thing that puzzles me. It was simple and beautiful
>in PB.
>The old search tab is now a sheet, and as a result, you can't permanently see
>what your search is, or was, which I often do. Also, it's scattered. You
enter
>your search in the sheet at the top of the window. You see the results in the
>search results group in the lower left. Then you view a result by making a
>selection in the central part of the window. In PB, all this was
concisely put
>together in the Find pane, and viewing past results was a simple matter to
>select it in the combo box.
>
>I have trouble with all the windows that Xcode opens. It's not because I'm
>advert to having multiple windows open: I've always liked CodeWarrior.
>Instead I
>think it's because the content of the windows doesn't fit with I'd like to be
>there or the layout is akward.
>
>I find it interesting that Apple makes these great user interfaces for
>consumer
>software, but has so much trouble with the developer tools.
>
>Maybe developers are more demanding?
>
>In any case, things sometimes depend on little details and I'm looking
forward
>to see what the Xcode guys have in store for us in the next releases.
>
>Steve
>
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