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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