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i'm still hoping i'll get used to it. i can't believe steve doesnt make the xcode team take on an interface designer.
by dot 16y ago
i'm still hoping i'll get used to it. i can't believe steve doesnt make the xcode team take on an interface designer.
- stevejohnson 16y agoYou really think the developer tools team doesn't have a UI designer?
- leon_ 16y agoAt least the one they've got got pretty disconnected from the developer's point of view. When I want to build my project I do not want to press a play button.
- YooLi 16y agoMe thinks you haven't been programming long if you don't know what the green triangle does. It's been a "play button" for over a decade.
- ForensicPics 16y agoThe green button RUNS the program, building it first if necessary. Where did he say he wants to run the program?
- pennig 16y agoWhat kind of button would you want to press?
- snotrockets 16y ago\C-c c
- jshen 16y agoreally, cause that's exactly what button I look for when I'm in an IDE trying to figure out how to run a project. I'm sitting here looking at intellij which has a 'play' button for running code.
- ForensicPics 16y agoHe said BUILD, not RUN.
- pohl 16y agoI just checked Eclipse: Green circle with a white, right-pointing triangle. Then I checked Netbeans: Green right-pointing triangle. Both of these are unmistakable icons for 'play'. Edit: I even googled for screenshots of Visual Studio...green right-facing triangle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vs2010rtm.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vs2010rtm.png Could there be a more universal idiom in the world of IDEs?
- ForensicPics 16y agoGuys, try reading his post: "When I want to build my project I do not want to press a play button." He said BUILD, not RUN. A Play button is to build and RUN the project. I agree with his objection: There's no Build button in the UI. And even worse is the width of the combined drop-down list for configurations. There's a vast expanse of empty space in the (now non-customizable) toolbar, and they made this control SMALLER. The information it should be providing is cut off in all cases, even with short project names. I try to be sympathetic to the Xcode team's tasks, but this is idiotic.
- jonhendry 16y agoI think the problem is more that they change the design too often. Maybe this is because they get a new interface designer who has new ideas. But then they end up doing things like throwing out a working documentation viewer and replacing it with a new design that doesn't work.