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
Sorry to bump this, but really. Is there no way to change the background?
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 😐
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...)
Option 3 - Invert the screen.
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
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.
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.
.
No there is no way to change that aspect of the Xcode interface.
xcode 5 change white interface builder background?
