Ergonomics - Rant

Todd Blanchard tblanchard at mac.com
Thu Jul 12 19:46:34 UTC 2007


Since we are talking about ergonomics, I haven't done any coding in  
modern images in some time (my production system is 3.7 based) and  
when I started working on a fix to a minor problem in the HTML parser  
in a very new image, I found myself frustrated at every turn.

1) When I browse senders, I get a browser with a bunch of methods.   
If I modify one of the methods, I DO NOT WANT IT TO VANISH FROM THE  
BROWSER ON SAVE!  I keep having to go find the freakin' thing for  
every edit.  STOP IT!

2) When I select a class in the browser, please show all the methods  
initially in the methods pane.  What used to take 1 click now takes a  
couple.  Consider that I'm browsing up and down a hierarchy looking  
for the level that contains the implementation for a method.  It  
takes a couple clicks just to look to see if the method is there.

In general, the click per operation count seems to be going up, while  
useful buttons in the browser button bar seem to be vanishing (where  
is the one that lets me find ivar references now?)

Rant over for now.

-Todd Blanchard



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