Phil Stokes

Q: xcode 5 change white interface builder background?

Option 1: buy some sunglasses .

 

Option 2: can anyone instruct me how to go about changing the glaring white background in interface builder/MainMenu.xib editor?

 

I was more than happy with the old graph paper background. Any way to get that back?

 

TIA

Posted on Sep 30, 2013 3:23 AM

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  • by Phil Stokes,

    Phil Stokes Phil Stokes Oct 9, 2013 5:07 AM in response to Phil Stokes
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    Oct 9, 2013 5:07 AM in response to Phil Stokes

    Sorry to bump this, but really. Is there no way to change the background?

  • by Frank Caggiano,

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Oct 9, 2013 6:52 AM in response to Phil Stokes
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    Oct 9, 2013 6:52 AM in response to Phil Stokes

    Not that I've heard of. It appears that the look of Xcode 5 couples tightly with IOS 7, the icons, the white background, etc.

     

    I saw Xcode 5 before I saw IOS 7 and was immediately hit with the change in look of Xcode, the flatness of the UI, the colors, the icons. When I finally installed IOS 7 it was obvious (at least to me) that the UI's were based on the same theme.

     

    I'm afraid this hints at what Mavericks will look like

  • by Phil Stokes,

    Phil Stokes Phil Stokes Oct 9, 2013 9:32 AM in response to Frank Caggiano
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    Oct 9, 2013 9:32 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

    Mavericks GUI is already widely publicized. It's not that much different from ML.

     

    The changes that I've seen are generally welcome — the exception being the blinding white Xcode 5 Interface builder "background" (I'm not sure that 'background' is really the appropriate term for any part of a visual field whose salience competes with the elements that are supposed to be the focus of the viewer's attention, but still...)

  • by K T,

    K T K T Oct 9, 2013 9:58 AM in response to Phil Stokes
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    Oct 9, 2013 9:58 AM in response to Phil Stokes

    Option 3 - Invert the screen.

  • by Frank Caggiano,

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Oct 9, 2013 10:11 AM in response to Phil Stokes
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    Oct 9, 2013 10:11 AM in response to Phil Stokes

    I definitely agree with you. I find it distracting to say the least.

     

    I don't think it is coincidence that we got this change in Xcode 5 and at the same time the blinding white background in a lot of IOS 7.

     

    Anyway it would be nice if this was a user setting similar to what you get for the editor. Maybe in the next release.

     

    regards

  • by K T,

    K T K T Oct 9, 2013 10:27 AM in response to Frank Caggiano
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    Oct 9, 2013 10:27 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

    Everyone with a concern should be filing bugs against the tools.

     

    See Bug Reports: What Devs Need To Know if you're new to the process.

  • by Phil Stokes,

    Phil Stokes Phil Stokes Oct 9, 2013 11:23 AM in response to K T
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    Oct 9, 2013 11:23 AM in response to K T

    No, I'm not new to the process. I spent several years in AppleSeed and filed plenty of bugs both there and also through Radar, too.  I'm past that, now. Apple shouldn't need lessons in basic visual design, and I don't believe they'll listen to any users who care to give them (enter evidence for the prosecution, item 1: the vociferous complaints since July 2011 about the lack of color icons in Finder sidebar and the paucity of any response from ).

     

    My question was whether there was any way to change this behaviour at the user level, not how to express my dissatisfaction about the design.

  • by Frank Caggiano,

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Oct 9, 2013 12:36 PM in response to Frank Caggiano
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    Oct 9, 2013 12:36 PM in response to Frank Caggiano

    .

  • by Frank Caggiano,

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Oct 9, 2013 12:37 PM in response to Phil Stokes
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    Oct 9, 2013 12:37 PM in response to Phil Stokes

    No there is no way to change that aspect of the Xcode interface.