As a user of the product, it's totally related to Ray's point of issues that detract from being efficient in Xcode as we put our apps together.
And unless Mountain Lion is two years old, this is another built in behaviour that gets in the way of the desire to get work done quickly.
Command keys/key shortcuts exist for a reason, to allow us to navigate the interface faster. When the interface inserts superfluous behaviour that slows us down while we are trying to navigate the interface faster, this is a design flaw that should be fixed.
As Mountain Lion is the new OS, this "animate the roll out and roll up of every all the items displayed from a disclosure triangle", slows down the interface. It's not helping us do our jobs better or faster.
If you press a command key or a shortcut key to issue a command, the animation delay (if any) should be as short as possible without creating a distracting user experience so that we can get the task done as fast as we can.
I didn't buy two SSDs, 16 GB of RAM, an 8 TB Thunderbolt backup to slow down my experience in the product.
If we don't point this out (Ray did and you didn't seem to have an issue with his point), then there is no call to address it.
I want to use the product to get work done as fast as possible and any little dent where the I have to wait for the device to catch up is not desirable.
If you think (because of experience) that it's completely pointless to openly bring point out areas of the product because it's fruitless and you think Apple's gonna do what Apple's gonna do, and that's a sad reality we have to live with, but one of the previous times I brought up an issue (Xcode auto terminating due to this auto quit "feature"), someone in the community actually came up with a solution and addressed it. Then we did more digging and we came up with how to turn off the undesired behaviour system wide and it addressed a desire a lot of people had.
So, if you have an issue with me, fine. I can deal with it. But, if you're against mentioning an issue that I still have no solution for and would really like a solution for, I think you're out of line. I'm not bringing it up every week, nor every month, no matter how much it is an irritation every time I use Xcode. It's related to the "psychological component" that Ray mentioned and I felt it complemented his point.
That's it.
- Alex Zavatone
On Apr 25, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On Apr 25, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Alex Zavatone <
email@hidden> wrote:
Sitting and waiting for a split second while I must watch an unneeded animation that can not be turned off after I invoked an action by pressing a command key has the same effect on me.
Oh come on, Alex — you've just derailed this thread to bring up one of your pet peeves, one which you have already described and vented about several times on this list.
I think we've exhausted the topic of trimming whitespace. And we already exhausted the topic of superfluous UI animations at least two years ago. Please let's just stop this thread here.
—Jens