Ergonomics - Rant

Damien Cassou damien.cassou at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 11:57:07 UTC 2007


2007/7/12, Todd Blanchard <tblanchard at mac.com>:
> 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!


I you browser the senders and, after modification, your method is not
a sender anymore, it's normal that the method disappear.


> 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.


This is a known problem. People are searching solutions to allow this
without hacking in the framework.


> 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?)

it is named 'variables'.

-- 
Damien Cassou



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