Re: Nib back-compatibility
Re: Nib back-compatibility
- Subject: Re: Nib back-compatibility
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:09:18 -0400
On Jun 19, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Joar Wingfors wrote:
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> On 18 nov 2011, at 18:30, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Gotta tell you, it will take a while before I prefer Xcode 4 over Xcode 3.
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> On 19 jun 2014, at 08:23, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> If I had my way, I'd still be developing under Snow Leopard if possible. The UI in Snow Leopard and in the 4.x versions of Xcode were so much better than what we are stuck with today.
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> Heads up Alex: We'll be shipping Xcode 6 soon. Get ready to refer to Xcode 5 as "the good old days", and Xcode 6 as the "scary new stuff"! ;-)
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> Joar
Hah, awesome!
I remember those halcyon winters of yore, back in Cupertino when we used to huddle around the build machines for warmth.
Times back then were hard, but we rejoiced when Xcode 5 came out, as we couldn't afford internal lighting and during solar eclipses, we'd resort to opening up storyboards on our Thunderbolt displays to light our ways as we would download Dash to read Cocoa documentation.
Those were rough times indeed, but all white interfaces and UI elements without button backgrounds lit our days while our offspring were endlessly entertained by collapsing and expanding animated NSOutline views.
Ahh, those times were so long ago, but seemed like it was almost yesterday.
Next thing you know, I'll be longing for the eyestrain caused by the iOS 7 interface.
Just booted up to run 6 the other day. Looks like there are a bunch of improvements in there.
But one request - wherever there is excess/gratuitous animation, please give us an NSUserDefault to set the animation time to 0.001.
It's always a joy pressing a command key and then waiting a split second for the interface to animate before you can do the task you really pressed the command key to do.
Too many things flying across the screen/popping, sliding, wobbling, swooping, jiggling, and bouncing call for our visual attention and run the risk of pulling the user's attention away from the task at hand. As of late, the Mac's (and Xcode's) UI have become way too ADD inducing.
Way too ADD inducing.
I don't know about everyone else, but I want to focus on my task. If the animation vies for my attention, it's taking my attention away from the task I am trying to accomplish.
If the animation isn't helping the user (developer) get his job done (faster), it's not welcome.
If it slows us down, then let us turn it off.
Please.
I'll say nice things about you to strangers if you can make this happen.
Cheers,
- Alex Zavatone
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