I love the clean look with all the great developer features pre-installed (shout, OCompletion, etc.). It's been a pleasure to work with.
And, a few things stood out that didn't seem to work as well. I'm sharing them here because I wonder what your opinions are. Also, what is the policy about contributing "good ideas" i.e. new/altered features that are not bug fixes? Is it best to discuss them on the list like this, or submit a changeset right off the bat per http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/HowToContribute? Suggestions: * Why shift for meta? On a Macbook (with one button), it's awkward to press shift+alt+click, and also disorienting to go back and forth from Squeak which is just alt+click. Is there a reason to not keep the convention? * what is with the workflow of the default browser? When you click on a protocol, the method template appears in the bottom pane, all highlighted and ready to be replaced. But because hovering over the pane doesn't give it the keyboard focus (like Squeak), you have to click in it, which unselects the template, which you then have to reselect manually… Certainly not a big deal, but weird. I though of a few possible fixes: - automatically give the bottom pane the keyboard focus when working in the protocol column (which doesn't seem to need it (I like this one - fewest steps for the user) - don't have the template pre-selected, so that clicking in the pane below the template selects it (easiest fix, requires one more user click) * bizarre window changing - the (on Mac) Cmd+(hold arrow) to rotate through the open windows is pretty cool, but when you tap the arrow key (instead of holding it), it just goes back and forth between two windows, which I can't see a use for. It seems it would be more useful to have the behavior to be: if you hold down the Cmd key and repeatedly tap the arrow hit, the windows rotate one after the other until you get through them all and recycle and v.v. for the opposite direction arrow. * new windows e.g. workspaces appear wherever they feel like (is it a standard location?). It seems to flow better if they appeared where the user is already looking i.e. where the active hand is. * Single/multi-line popups - when you're extracting a method via "refactor source," you get a huge multi-line popup window, which eats crs, so after you enter the name and hit return, you are still in the popup and must take your hands off the keyboard to click "ok." Now, fair enough, this might actually be a good thing in other circumstances, but - when you reference an unknown class, you get an "unknown variable" popup, choose "define new class," click through the category selection, you get a one-line popup to edit a paragraph-long class definition, lol! So: - "refactor source->extract method" should be a single-line popup - and, "define new class->edit class definition" should be a multi-liner. Thanks for an awesome environment, and I will continue to contribute any way I can :) Sean P. DeNigris -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Initial-experience-coming-from-Squeak-tp1799044p1799044.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
