Re: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
Re: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
- Subject: Re: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
- From: Rick Mann <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:32:41 -0700
On Mar 21, 2011, at 3:26 PM, G S wrote:
> >More of Xc4's unwillingness to support multi-window use.
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> How do you figure? Opening in a separate window on double-click is the default, just like it was in Xcode 3.
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> Applications are migrating away from the flotilla of floating windows for good reason: It's a mess. It was a lazy cop-out in which developers simply decided not to do any real design work, and shift the burden onto the users by making them herd windows around all day. Not to mention the counter-productiveness of trying to work in a UI that allowed all the crap on your desktop and other apps' UIs to show through the one you're trying to use.
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> Give the Xcode team some credit for trying to actually design a proper UI instead of just bailing on the whole task. Whether the results are good is another debate.
I completely disagree. Multiple windows are a boon to productivity, and being prevented from using them hinders, rather than helps.
People are able to find a specific file much more quickly if they can incorporate a spatial reference for it (i.e. position on screen, and shape). All-in-one designs force you to remember the label associated with a file and find that in a list before you can get at it. They also prevent you from looking at multiple windows simultaneously ("all the crap" you refer to). It's easy enough to hide windows you're not interested in.
Sure, strictly speaking, you can open a file in a new window. But you can't get away from the all-in-one UI, and Xc4 treats separate windows as second-class citizens.
I want my file to live in a window. I want my apps (especially Xcode) to remember where I put it, and to go *there* whenever it wants to present that content to me.
I don't want extra, relatively unrelated panes to pop up in my windows. I don't want to waste the screen real estate on their minimized forms, and I don't want to to be as easy as it is for them to pop open (generally, they happen outside of an explicit request to do so, like hitting a breakpoint when the wrong window is forward, etc.)
Xc4 is the result of a generation of windows users, who never learned basic window managements skills (mostly because window management on Windows is much worse than it was on the Mac), coming to the Mac in droves after the iPhone (and to a lesser degree, Mac OS X) came out.
If you want to provide a beginner mode in an all-in-one window in your app, fine. But for a power/expert-user app like Xcode, this should not be the intended operating mode.
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Rick
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