On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Hilaire <[email protected]> wrote:
> Documentation always help :)
>
> What information will be helpful ?
> I understand now your intend: you want to encourage people to discover
> the Spot settings and how to write your own search plugin, so you expose
> the source code plugin in the settings browser description.
> It does not strike me, and I find your web page more helpful. But again,
> only my perception.
>
> Now, try to imagine the worst case scenario by playing the role of a
> student learning Pharo with MOOC. What information will be helpful for
> your given a few facts?
>
> - you already discover Spot, and find the tools pretty cool.
> - you learn about the Setting browser, there you discover you can toggle
> Spot's option. What will be useful for you to understand what does the
> plugings. Then, do you first want to know what does the plugin or how to
> write your own?
>
> May be in the settings browser, GT Spotter Extensions category,

Oh! Not seen that before.  That is interesting!

> you can write a bit more about writing spotter plugin,

Sounds like a good place for such info.  Or a button or link to bring
up a help topic.

> then in each plugin entry
> write a human readable sentence explaining what does the plugin.

And a bit of executable code to launch a demo of the GUI effect.

> After all, from the Settings browser, each entry is just one shortcut
> [alt]-b away.


There is such a large number of extensions, its easy to be
overwhelmed.  Perhaps the could be another level, and/or display so
some common/easy to follow ones at the top of the list of settings.

cheers -ben

>
>
> One remark, why is there both:
>         Trait>>#spotterSuperClassMethodsFor:
> and
>         Class>>#spotterSuperClassMethodsFor:
>
>
> The Trait one seems uneffective.
>
> Hilaire
>
>
> Le 05/06/2016 08:17, Tudor Girba a écrit :
>> make it easier for a newcomer to comprehend?
>>
>> To get the conversation started, I put together a description of what they 
>> mean here:
>> http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/discovering-and-managing-spotter-extensions/
>>
>> What do you think? Does this clarify the problem for you? If yes, what 
>> information would be useful to have in the image to better communicate the 
>> intent?
>
> --
> Dr. Geo
> http://drgeo.eu
>
>

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