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: Joar Wingfors <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:50:21 -0700
Wow, 10 replies. I tried to thread carefully, but I still managed to step on some toes apparently...
On 24 mar 2011, at 11.20, Jean-Denis Muys wrote:
> You argue that one window can be more efficient than several, while putting in doubt our claim otherwise.
Here's in a nutshell what I think: I'm not convinced that there's a significant difference in how "efficient" a developer can be between the single-window and the multiple-window workflows. In specific cases, each workflow might offer concrete advantages, but for the most part, and for most developers, I think that they're pretty much tied. That's not to say that developers who prefers the multiple-window workflow wouldn't be more efficient if allowed to use the multiple-window workflow. I'd certainly assume that they would be, and less frustrated as well.
I think that the only times in this thread where I may have appeared to suggest that the single-window workflow would be superior to the multiple-window workflows have been in my two "counter arguments" to you Jean-Denis. They were both offered half jokingly, one time with a smiley, and the other time with a question mark. Why? Well, because while what you said sounded quite good, I didn't necessarily agree with it, and I figured that I could offer a reply that sounded just as good (but that also didn't necessarily hold water). This is obviously a serious enough discussion that it was foolish of me to do anything half jokingly... ;-)
>> How about I make the counter argument that single-window users would be less affected by moving to a smaller screen, because they don't have a workflow that depends on having lots of different documents visible at all times?
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> Who is moving to a smaller screen nowadays? My screen real estate has only increased over time.
"Move" was perhaps a bad choice of word. I was probably still thinking about the other email that I replied to around the same time, where we talked about moving between a laptop with a smaller screen and a desktop with a larger screen, and how apps handle that transition. In this particular context, I was not really referring to moving between screens at all, but rather focusing on comparing how single-window and multiple-window workflows would fare in a hypothetical smaller amount of space. You're arguing that multiple-window users could tile more content areas on the smaller screen, and I'm arguing that single-window users wouldn't even think to do that.
Cheers,
j o a r
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