On Mar 19, 2015, at 12:29 PM, Roland King wrote: > >> On 19 Mar 2015, at 23:26, Alex Zavatone <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> A general question, but I think the answer is going to be "you're SOL”. > > You’re SOL > >> >> I've noticed that almost every control un Xcode is animated in some way now. >> Each of the popups in Xcode 6 grows and shrinks, the check buttons have >> these fade in and fade out animations on them, etc. >> >> Is there some way to simply stop these? It's really really really really >> unpleasantly distracting to have animations in each and every action that >> you perform with the UI of Xcode. > > You’ve been banging that drum for a couple of years now, Apple is banging a > different drum. We’re fortunate we can turn off the creepy-shadowy-background > effect (I think it’s called vibrancy) even if we have to go into > accessibility settings to do it. The animations, you’re stuck with them … and > the rubber band, you’re stuck with that too. bounce bounce.
Yeah, I'm pretty strongly affected by these changes. All this motion in the visual effects pull my attention away from what I'm trying to do. It's a serious problem. I've rebuilt WebKit to turn off the insipid bounce (it's hardcoded in for Mac OS >= 10.7, actually overriding a read of NSUserDefaults which obeyed it). I seem to remember days where we had NSUserDefaults where you could turn off or speed up UI effects that got in the way of productivity. Little things like defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO (disable windows growing open in your face when you create one) and defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime .001 (near instant open and save sheets) are great gems if you want a faster and less visually intrusive UI. >> >> Can we get it so that you click a control and it just does the thing you >> wanted it to do without visually distracting superfluous animations? > > No. > >> >> This reminds me of the terribly annoying wobbling VH-1 pop up videos >> bubbles. > > I remember those, I don’t think any of the facts presented in them were real > facts. The bubbles were mostly better than the music. Be careful what you > suggest, compiler warnings may yet animate into place. > Ya know, since were developers who don't need this fluff, you'd think that we would be able to turn this off. Pressing command control D to get a word definition displays 3 or 4 + animations now with growing, highlighting, growing, sliding and popping. It's visually way too much going on. They put time in to make this happen. Why can't we simply turn this all off? >> >> The issue is that whenever there is an extra set of visual actions when you >> interact with the UI, this is a terribly unwanted distraction that pulls >> your limited focus away from the task you are trying to accomplish. >> >> PLEASE, is there some setting in Xcode to disable these fades, grows, >> shrinks, swoops. slides when interacting with checkboxes, buttons, popup >> menus? The UI is becoming a distraction machine, not a tool to help us get >> our jobs done. > > No. No such setting exists. > >> >> I'd like my functional UI back so I can focus on getting my job done, not >> being distracted by the UI pulling my attention away from the task I'm >> trying to accomplish when ever I interact with it. >> >> Some setting to disable all this motion is direly needed. Please tell me >> there is one. > > There isn’t. Wow. That's certainly painful. Seriously. There is a reduced motion setting on iOS. It would make me actually want to use the platform again if we had one on the Mac OS. Sigh, thanks man. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
