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adobe / brackets

An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
http://brackets.io
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New Preferences flow in 1.4 very frustrating to use #11499

Open EvHaus opened 9 years ago

EvHaus commented 9 years ago

The new Preferences flow in 1.4 is quite frustrating to an end user. Consider this:

  1. Choose Brackets > Preferences
  2. Brackets opens the preferences in split view

Now, in order to close the preferences I need all of these steps:

  1. Find the Preferences file in the Project Files Panel (why is this a separate file and not a dialog/panel?)
  2. Close the Preferences file
  3. Find the Split Screen button (this is quite hidden to those users who never use this feature)
  4. Choose "No Split"

That's a lot of steps just to get back to where you were before opening the preferences. Can anything be done? How about simply opening the Preferences in full view, instead of split view?

nethip commented 9 years ago

@globexdesigns You could use this preference "preferencesView.openPrefsInSplitView": false to disable opening preferences file in split view.

EvHaus commented 9 years ago

@nethip That's much better. I would suggest making that enabled by default. Especially since without a Preferences GUI most users will have no idea that this preference even exists (I sure didn't).