Re: Xcode 4 UI customizability curiosities
Re: Xcode 4 UI customizability curiosities
- Subject: Re: Xcode 4 UI customizability curiosities
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:15:34 -0600
On 22 Jan 2013, at 3:49 PM, Andy O'Meara <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
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>> On Jan 22, 2013, at 11:04 , Andy O'Meara <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> Apologies in advance if I'm being a meathead here, but is there any way for Xcode 4.5 to bring an already-open file (as a tab) to the front rather than Xcode always make a new tab?
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>> … when you do … what?
>
> Well, when you do a navigation click that initiates a new tab (as set in the general prefs pane). Pretty common unless you do all your editing in a single tab the entire time.
So your problem is that you've set a gesture to open files in separate (the General pref pane's word) tabs, and you use that gesture, and you're annoyed that when you repeat the gesture a lot you've opened a lot of separate tabs? I don't see how it's unintuitive or unintelligent that asking for X five times should give you X five times.
Or is it that when you have tabs A.m, B.h, and C.storyboard, and then do something that expresses interest in A.m (other than, say, clicking A.m's tab), the gesture should activate tab A.m, rather than creating an additional tab?
Interesting feature. You should elaborate it (off-list) and request it. http://bugreporter.apple.com/ .
My own comment is that in providing a big fat tab for you to click, and key bindings to navigate between tabs, Xcode has already provided an intuitive, intelligent way to expose a file in a tab. Perhaps I misunderstand.
> Perhaps I'm just in a dying minority of old-school MacOS-influenced (ie. not OS X) people who ask the logical questions and let those answers drive the design rather then accepting 'this is how it is and is good enough (or is too much work)'. and in this case, when the work can be measured in a couple man-days and when having 10 tabs each open with 'MyFile.cpp' is supposed to make any kind of intuitive or intelligent sense. I don't mean to be harsh here -- just trying to share what seems to be screaming at me, ya know? :)
Be serious. I've owned Macintoshes since 1984, and my instincts are neither universal nor impervious to the experience of the last 15 years. My preferences are shared by some (not all) of the — 1%? — of living Mac owners who have had Macs that long. Call it 10% if you include everybody who was exposed to Mac OS 9. The remaining 90% do not necessarily share my intuitions.
What you're asking for is a _feature_, not God's will. It's a feature worth considering, but it is not offensive that the responsible people will have to trade it off against the complexity of the UI and documentation (you want open-tab-times-5 to mean open-tab-times-1, but only sometimes), and the problem of working the feature into hundreds of thousands of lines of code (again, it's not the Tao — there is no "flow with the Universe" opcode).
There's a lot lacking in Xcode, and some things wrong, but insinuating that it's a crime that it isn't designed like WriteNow isn't constructive.
I'm sorry to land so hard on you, who are probably unaware of this group's history. We have had this conversation (not the feature request, which is perfectly legitimate, but — in some cases — the bullying) time and time again, to no effect other than to make one guy feel important. Please let's not have it again.
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