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: Jean-Denis Muys <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:50:11 +0000
- Thread-topic: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
On 25 mars 2011, at 07:50, Joar Wingfors wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> "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.
Yes and I don't like this, because this muddying the issue. Now we have two issues:
1- How big a problem is losing the overlapping model considered on one computer?
2- How best to cater to the nomad developer who switches computer configuration on a regular basis?
These two issues are not independent clearly, but:
Issue #1 is important to many of us whether or not this has an impact on the nomad developer. This is why I don't want to make that issue even more complex by adding nomadism considerations to it. It may possibly turn out that the overlapping model has strong advantages in general, but the tiling model has strong nomad advantages. Anecdotally, I am a nomad too: I work at home (30" + 24" screens), at work (two 20" screens), and on the move (one 17" MBP). But since my productive development sessions last several hours on a given configuration, it's a small price to pay if I need to spend 5 minutes at the start of the session to setup my workspace.
Issue #2 is for me much less an issue of overlapping vs tiling model, than an issue of how you can let the developer setup persistent local workspace configurations. How to cater to the nomad developer may very well be a less acute problem for the tiling model. That doesn't reflect on the fitness of the tiling model however. On the contrary it only reflects on the smaller expressiveness of the tiling model. To go one step further to make the point, it's even easier to cater to the nomad developer in the "TTY" model (a single console, where you don't even have tiling areas). That doesn't mean the TTY model is better, does it?
Jean-Denis Muys
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