On 2012-02-29, at 10:46 AM, Andrew Satori wrote:
I don't care what IDE you want to talk about, they all break when we push them in unexpected ways, and as developers, we tend to push tools to fit our workflows, not to conform to theirs. I think if you look at your problems, and get serious about understanding them, you will find that you are creating some of your own problems.
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This is one of the few grown up responses on this topic. I started programming more than 40 years ago and very soon learned to ask "What am
I doing wrong here and why?" when the inevitable unexpected occurred.
Many of the complaints about the single window metaphor may be coming from programmers who only have a single monitor such as a laptop (but perhaps I'm wrong here.) A laptop is OK on a plane or off site. But I personally would not be able to be really productive unless I had a desktop system and all the peripherals that go with it. YMMV.
IAC I only have 2 monitors these days, (although before retiring always had at minimum 3) and can easily double click and get separate tabbed windows with xib's and library on one screen (an old 19" CRT) and the source code on my 30" Cinema. It all works well once I learned the new paradigm.
Which is what I decided to do rather than trying to preserve older habits from XC 3.
Like others I also have filed bug reports into the bottomless pit.
But that's all I'm asked to do - the rest is up to Apple. Meanwhile I just get on with it.
Oh well, time to get off the soap box and have my afternoon snooze.
respect…
Peter