Hi Dale, Thanks for your thoughts. And thanks for giving these new quirks time to settle :).
Actually, I am looking for what is annoying and I specifically interested in the reasons why it is annoying. Please feel free to report the bits that annoy you. Cheers, Doru > On Aug 7, 2016, at 3:57 PM, Dale Henrichs <dale.henri...@gemtalksystems.com> > wrote: > > > > On 8/7/16 6:16 AM, Tudor Girba wrote: >> Hi Stef, >> >> >> That is why we made the default printing not affect the text editor, and >> this feature is around since almost 2 years and, except of you, there was no >> other complain. >> > I believe that this is a logical fallacy ... many developers are too busy > actually trying to do work with these tools and don't have time or > inclination to get involved in an argument :) > > There are a number of odd, awkward, hidden, "old way does not work anymore" > things that I am running into as I have just been using Pharo5.0 for a couple > of months ... I understand that when the GUI changes one must give it a > little bit of time to "settle in" and see if my annoyance is due to the fact > that things have changed or if the "old way was better" ... > > I don't like the funky popup prints either --- they often obscure the > underlying text and when I do something to see the underlying text I lose the > printout --- occasionally it is useful as a preview but that's not the only > use case .. often the result is what I want ... > > But I am trying to do real work and I really don't have the time to get into > an embroiled argument over things so far I feel less productive (the debugger > buttons are a real annoyance) but perhaps with practice and patience I will > eventually see the light of putting heavily used menu items off in a corner > ... > > BTW, I've basically given up on using browser shortcuts altogether ... I am > assuming that the shortcuts will be changing yet again in 6.0 so I'm not > going to try to memorize shortcuts that will be changing every 6 months :) > > While I am complaining --- is there a way to be able to change the width of > the inspector panes in a debugger? I'm almost never able to see what I want > to see in the inspector panes because they aren't wide enough and unlike > every other pane in the universe, I can't grab the pane and change its width > ... I'm sure you have a good argument for why it can't be moved --- but that > doesn't stop me from being annoyed ... > > Optimized code is often uglier than the cleanly crafted beautiful code that > runs too damn slow ... > > I could go on and on, but I'm sure you've good reasons for all of the the > things that you have changed and this isn't the only GUI in the world that is > annoying to use :) > > Remember that I am still in the phase of "give it a little bit of time to > "settle in" and see if my annoyance is due to the fact that things have > changed or if the "old way was better" ... " > > Dale > > -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "Being happy is a matter of choice."
