> On Oct 20, 2014, at 16:52 , Kyle Sluder <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The Jump Bar icon is not an adequate replacement because:
> 
> - It doesn't contain a proxy icon for the workspace
> - It removes the workspace from the top of the window, which is
> especially important if you have multiple workspaces open (merging a
> change down to a branch, for example)
> - If the last segment of the Jump Bar gets too long, the file segment
> truncates
> - Even if it doesn't truncate, it moves around, making answering the
> question "what file am I looking at?" require a visual hunt around the
> screen
> - It breaks the visual connection between the Window menu/Mission
> Control and the window itself

I agree with all of this.

> Here's hoping the Xcode team realizes that, since Xcode is a
> document-based app, it should behave like other document-based apps and
> keep its proxy icon.

If only Xcode were a document-based app, in that there were a strong binding 
between a window and its contents, rather than replacing the content of a 
window (or pane) with that of another file so readily.

-- 
Rick Mann
[email protected]



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