Hi Kilon, Yesterday, at a conference in software engineering, someone shown a new programming environment and made an experiment with users. The authors have shown that users with the _most experience_ in programming technologies are the most negative users. On the opposite, users with less experience in programming environment enjoyed it very much.
Your email clearly goes in the first pattern. At the beginning I was also in the same situation: I could not make up my mind with GT. Including GT in Pharo is really what could happen the best of our future. Alexandre On Oct 2, 2014, at 12:19 PM, kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it just me or is the Playground a big step back in the usability of Pharo > ? > > For me its Gui makes no sense. Gone is the right click menu which had tons of > useful actions now you only get like a few options. The tab thing is weird to > say the least with the navigation of the tabs being in the opposite side > (bottom) of the navigation of the internal tabs(top). No more right arrow > menu for shortcuts and many features that workspace had. No ability to resize > the panel tabs . Weird terminolgy like "All ref" and "Meta". Meta tab you > have to select the first item and then the other first item and then it > displays fully . > > Also how one closes a tab panel ? Is it possible ? I tried everything but i > cant get them to close. > > I click a method and instead of opening a panel on the bottom for the source > as I would expect ,make my workspace area disappear and create a new panel > that sends me to state, whatever this is. Then I have to click on the source > tab. This is one of the most annoying guis I have used in an IDE. > > Ironically the meta tab has got this right , name of class - method names and > source of methods . On the instance side tab there is a different kind of > thinking , why ? > > Also the inspector seems to get in some kind of loop opening forever panels > when it finds a dead end in its inspection.For example clicking self. > > It has some good ideas in it, but I dont like the execution. > > The big loss for me is the inability to create windows groups, this > functionality provided a very nice solution to the windows mess of pharo. I > can name my groups but also the individual windows and so the tabs have short > names that I know what they are and names of course I can customise. > > I can disable it via settings but maybe I am missing something here, a some > kind of usefulness because I don't understand or don't know how to use it > properly. -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
