Re: Xcode 4 UI customizability curiosities
Re: Xcode 4 UI customizability curiosities
- Subject: Re: Xcode 4 UI customizability curiosities
- From: Rick Mann <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:31:44 -0800
On Jan 23, 2013, at 21:56 , Joar Wingfors <email@hidden> wrote:
> It's pretty seriously difficult to provide multiple UI paradigms in one application. Someone in this thread said "adding a checkbox that would enable this behavior, so there would be precisely zero downside for you or anyone else's Xcode experience". I cannot agree that adding additional features have "zero downside" for those who are not using those new features. New features always have a price tag, primarily in terms of what you cannot work on while implementing / supporting that new feature set.
No, it's obviously not easy, but it's important. This isn't an iApp. But I think Xcode could have been designed with both workflows in mind. I can certainly imagine it. Xcode 3 sure seemed to support both tabbed and windowed behavior quite well, I thought, although I only used the windowed behavior, so I don't know about the tabbed. I don't know anyone whose mental model is truly enhanced by the browser model, but maybe there are many. All I know is that I typically have six or more things all at the forefront, not just one to my left and one to my right.
Even more jarring is when I have two unrelated projects open in Xcode, and the more recently-opened one's debug tab shows the older one's last debug context.
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Rick
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