RE: Age Old Question: How Do You Set __MyCompanyName__
RE: Age Old Question: How Do You Set __MyCompanyName__
- Subject: RE: Age Old Question: How Do You Set __MyCompanyName__
- From: "Jeff Laing" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:57:09 -0700
- Thread-topic: Age Old Question: How Do You Set __MyCompanyName__
> > Let me turn this around: Why should it be in Xcode's preferences?
> > It's a field in your Address Book card, and Xcode will take it from
> > there now.
>
> Why in the world would anyone expect it to be from the Address Book? I
> realize it is documented as being there, but it simply is not
> intuitive. After all, the Address Book and Xcode have absolutely
> nothing to do with each other (apart from this).
Without wanting to defend Apple too strongly, its in the Address Book
because that's the place that they store "all" information about people
in general. Or at least, that's what they feel they should do.
OSX is trying to manage a users INFORMATION, not just act as an enormous
haphazard DATA repository.
If a user wants to update information like "the company I work for",
they should be able to do it in one place, not one place per
application.
Now, whether Xcode, a "developer" application should store its
information in the "general" user information repository or not is going
to be a matter of personal taste.
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