On Mar 10, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Dave wrote: On 10 Mar 2011, at 20:13, Rick Mann wrote:
On Mar 10, 2011, at 12:07:29, Dave wrote:
I totally agree, the $5 isn't a problem. IMO the interface is horrible! I can't stand having everything in one giant window. I have 3 monitors on my MacPro and even when using my MacBook I usually attach a second window, with XCode 3.x I can arrange everything nicely so I can see more than once source file at once and still have a debugger window open. I have never enabled the "one giant window,with lots of separate panes" on XCode 3 and it is scary to think that I might be forced into using it under XCode 4.
Being forced to have everything in one window to be is a giant step backwards and stinks of Windoze!
This is my biggest gripe. I hate all-in-one UIs, too.
Xc4 has some support for opening new windows for things, and trimming down most of the chrome. But the window is still the full window Xc4 uses, and it's easy to accidentally open up some pane you don't want. This I can live with
What I don't like is that navigating from one source file to another doesn't just go to the already-open window. This is where Xc4 breaks down, in terms of supporting multiple, separate-window use.
(That, and that you can't have just the left-hand pane in a window without anything else).
I've written bugs about this, and they've come back as "known issues," so I hope they're working on it. Until then, Xc4 is very cumbersome for me to use.
Why do you have to use it? Why not just stick to XCode 3 for a while? With this and all the other issues and negative points that I've read, it doesn't seem worth the effort at the moment, for me anyway. On XCode 3, you know the "Simple View" preference? I was wondering if this were available in XCode 4? (I don't have it installed anywhere at the moment). Cheers Dave
Quoting from the 3 -> 4 Transition Guide
"Xcode 4 has a new, single-window interface for all major workflows (you can have multiple workspace windows and multiple tabs per window)."
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