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Re: Browsing Duplicate Bugs
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Re: Browsing Duplicate Bugs


  • Subject: Re: Browsing Duplicate Bugs
  • From: Brian Barnes <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:54:32 -0500

Fritz Anderson wrote:

> On 19 Feb 2012, at 10:36 AM, Brian Barnes wrote:
>
>> There is no bug in Xcode more disturbing to my workflow then #7493248 -- which is that changing tabs changes the left tree.  When I find in multiple files this drives me nuts, or clicking through errors, with the tree in the left pane constantly changing.  So, I submitted a bug report: #9262331.  It was closed as a duplicate of #7493248.  OK, great, other's have put that in.
>
> It's unlikely to change. The contents of a tab include whatever is in the Navigator area. The "left tree" doesn't change; you're just seeing a different navigator.
>
> Consider: I usually have a separate tab for Interface Builder. Space is at a severe premium in IB, so I hide the Navigator area and rely on the jump bar to navigate between XIBs. My code-editing tab includes a Project navigator, and when I return to it, the navigator is still where I left it. Similarly, I have a behavior that jumps to a separate tab, with a Search navigator, for workspace searches. I can enter my search and navigate freely among the results without disturbing my code tab.
>
> It's a feature. As always, it comes at the expense of other possible features, but I think they made the right choice.

It's open, and there are duplicates, so I don't think Apple considers this a feature.

There isn't a single other development environment or basically any GUI that behaves this way; think about Firefox with the favorites pane open, or MSVC, or about anything with a pane.  It's truly a bizarre GUI I've never seen anywhere else, especially not in other development environments.

I basically would think the tabs themselves ONLY need to appear over the middle section. And the old Xcode didn't behave this way (though I basically used it with windows, anyway.)  Neither did codewarrior before it :)

When determines if a UI is efficient, you have to consider the 9/10 rule.  Basically, you want to have it go open/close when you switch between IB and code; I need it to remain in the same place as I switch between many results in both finds, code, and compile problems.  One is a simple annoyance, the other is many time harder to deal with.

I'd have no problem with it being an option!

[>] Brian
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