Re: Is xCode4 a requirement now?
Re: Is xCode4 a requirement now?
- Subject: Re: Is xCode4 a requirement now?
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:11:14 -0600
On 10 Mar 2011, at 2:57 PM, Dave wrote:
> The thing that really gets me is why dumb down the interface when in the previous version all was well?
There are ways to get separate windows that have remarkably little cruft in them. Once I discovered this, I was much less unhappy with Xcode 4 than I was at first. And the side-by-side "assistant" view covers a good 60% of the cases in which I want to see more than one file at a time.
I am having to learn to keep my lines shorter to accommodate the "assistant" view. I only have 1920 pixels.
Why Apple made these changes is a separate question.
The problem, I am guessing, is that most iOS developers today are not used to, and do not want, Mac applications. They are accustomed to working on a platform that early on redefined "window" to mean "any non-overlapping rectangle on the screen." (Overlapping windows were harrrrd, but if you can get away with redefining the word, your work is done.) So lots of applications, particularly ones with a heavy legacy burden, are designed to be lots of non-overlapping rectangles, one or two of which contain your actual work.
Separate editor windows for separate documents are better. They take advantage of the fact that real brains think in terms of _things_ that exist in _places_ and stay where you put them. Being able to put a window where you'll remember it has always tested out to be a hugely more efficient way to work. It was one of the excuses the Mac had for existing.
Unfortunately, most of Xcode's current audience (and maybe most of Xcode's current engineers) have spent decades acquiring the skills that work around the lack of (or bias against) real windows. They think the workaround is the way it's supposed to be, and they can treat Mac windowing as a secondary taste to be accommodated.
— F
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