You don't have to let Visual Studio look like that. Mine certainly doesn't. I think it looks a bit like that when you first run it, but you can move stuff around to arrange it all the way you like. You can attach panels to the main window in a tiling fashion, group them in tab groups, then tear panels or tab groups off to create their own top-level windows. I don't want to sound like I'm advocating anarchy, nor that I subscribe to the most un-Apple like theory that Big Brother does not know best, but I think that Xcode 4.x would benefit from some of this sort of configurability.
The Visual Studio experience isn't perfect by any means. Torn-off panels aren't true top-level windows, and, ridiculously, you can't open the same file in multiple windows. But you can put things where you want, at least. It would be nice to have that in Xcode.
--Tom
On 2 Mar 2012, at 06:52, jp wrote: Yikes! Frightening.
Though I have to say, to each his/her own. Which is to say, if you want to be able to configure your IDE to look like something else that you're familiar with, you should be able to do so.
Personally, I would like the flexibility to create window groups (much like Logic Audio.. and I guess Photoshop and Director have them as well ...) that allow me to set up key commands to switch between different window configurations. Complex - maybe, but robust enough to satisfy anyone's workflow.
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