Re: Xc4 UI
Re: Xc4 UI
- Subject: Re: Xc4 UI
- From: WT <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:46:44 -0300
On Mar 15, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
> Le 15 mars 2011 à 18:01, Ross Carter a écrit :
>
>> On Mar 14, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:30:53 +0100, Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden> said:
>>>>
>>>> “The thing is that I really don't believe that even if I got really good at the one giant window way of working say to the level I am now with multiple windows that I'd work any faster”
>>>
>>> I'm not grasping the difficulty here. In Xcode 4 you *can* open code files in separate windows, and you can even open multiple instantiations of the project window (navigator and all); so what's the problem? I'm not using "one giant window" at all (except when I want to). m.
>>
>> One problem is, if you do that, then you have to be careful of the sequence in which you close the windows.
>>
>> I think it is fairly typical for developers to have one main window configured to appear where and how they like, and open other, smaller windows for particular purposes. But Xcode 4 can remember only one window configuration, and that is the configuration of the last open window for a project. So if you create a new window, resize it, move it, hide navigators, etc., and then close the first window before the you close the second window, then the next time you open the project the second window's settings will be restored.
>
> This is especially irritating when the restored window is a named tab. If you do not take care, you will change the layout to get something useful (file explorer, toolbar, …) and next time your named tab should be open (when building or starting a debug session), Xcode will bring front your new project window you will have to relayout it one more time to match your previous settings.
>
> This is not a big issue, but each time I relayout a window, I have the impression I'm losing time to do thing I had never done in Xcode 3.
> And at the end of the day, all the time passed fighting with the window layout make me fill I'm less productive with Xcode 4.
>
> -- Jean-Daniel
The answer is clear for us developers, then, to request Apple either to (re)introduce the option of having multiple windows, a la XCode 3, or to save more than one window configuration. Since Apple has made it a big deal that XCode 4 does everything in one window, I don't think they'll go back to what we were used to in XCode 3, so the idea of saving multiple window configurations seems to me to be a good compromise.
WT
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| | >Re: Xc4 UI (From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Xc4 UI (From: Ross Carter <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Xc4 UI (From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>) |