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Re: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
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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: Scott Ribe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:22:15 -0600

On Mar 21, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Rick Mann wrote:

> 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.

Funny, I made exactly that same point to someone else recently, on an entirely different subject, that MDI brain-damaged an entire generation of users. Designing a *development* environment for users who can't deal with more than 1 item at a time seems like a really stupid decision, since anybody who can't deal with multiple items at once cannot ever become a developer, no matter how much your environment tries to hold their hand and keep their focus.

I cannot count how many Windows IDEs over the years have made it maddeningly difficult, if not outright impossible, to see .h & .c at the same time. Such was a stupid decision then, and it remains stupid today. Clever multi-panel windows can offer nice options for organizing certain development tasks, but they should never do so at the cost of making it hard for users to position source windows (and other windows) as we want, nor should they impossible surprising & inscrutable window activations on us.

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