Re: Xc4 UI
Re: Xc4 UI
- Subject: Re: Xc4 UI
- From: Hamish Allan <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:50:57 +0000
Hi Dave,
Please excuse the brevity -- sent from my iPad
On 10 Mar 2011, at 21:47, Dave <email@hidden> wrote:
> That's a bit like saying that if you know you are going to die in a years time then you might as well do anyway with yourself now because the end is inevitable! I don't know about you but I'd want to enjoy my last year as much as possible!
If you want to use that analogy, please factor in:
1) Reincarnation
2) The ability to try out your next life without ending your last one
3) The ability to make changes to your next life to make it better before you are forced to end your previous one.
The analogy I would use is that you're moving to a new house which is more modern and better designed than your current one, but has a few things you need to fix up before you live there. The new owner of your current house doesn't need you to move out yet, so you have the luxury of living on there, just visiting the new house on weekends in order to get those things done. Why wait until you're forced to move to make a start on them?
> But why do you want it consolidated? It's not an iPad or an iPhone, it's a blazingly fast state of the art computer with oodles of RAM, disk space and screen real estate, why clump it all into one window, forcing everything to be moved /removed/summoned, when only one small part of the information need be operated on?
As others have pointed out, you can have as many windows open as you like.
> Computer OS's started off with one central view port , and then they invented multiple windows as a step forward, so why now move back to a single view port now? Just doesn't make sense to me.
And by the same token, neither does tabbed browsing, presumably; yet many people much prefer it.
> Actually I was really referring to XCode 4 when I said that, but to Mac OS in general, I don't think the XCode 4 Interface is at all "dumb" I just think that it a step backwards.
I actually think that tab management should be an OS-level function -- users should be free to tear off tabs or combine them in every app just as they can in Safari. This has been a realistic prospect ever since the unified toolbar. Getting a bit off topic, though :)
H
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