Thanks janko Give me another engineer and we redo completely the browsers :) Stef
> Dear Pharoers, > > I just finished syncing new Aida from VW on new Pharo 1.1 and during > that I collect few impressions and also suggestions, how to proceed. > Please find them as a kind of "concrete congratulation" to your work :) > > Impressions: > =========== > > - design is nice and polished, default font looks professional > - responsiveness and speed of browsing seems now fast enough > - very nice and simple Word menu > - nicely enhanced Inspector > - nice Google-like search in browser > - Aida is among few projects on DEVImageWorkspace, thanks guys! > - Settings browser is a real progress forward, nicely organized, but > with still too much choices. I suppose many settings are never or > really rarely used, those should be put outside this Settings browser. > - Help system also looks very promising! With an introduction of > context help also (like ? icons elsewhere) we can come close to ideal > help. Of course we need also good docs writers to write a really good > help, nicely balanced between a newcomer than expert viewpoint. > > Suggestions: > =========== > > - some Start button? Maybe named World? Not just ProfStef's 'go > evaluation' (which is much better than nothing of course). At least a > right click to come to a Word menu must be explained somewhere at the > start, otherwise one is lost how to proceed. > > - window buttons on Linux and Windows are on the wrong side. This is > very dangerous thing, user can quickly make en error and accidentialy > close a window. In any case it is very very annoying! A real > showstopper for me! > > - System browser has no package view, just categories. This is > confusing to newcomers, what are packages, what categories? Having > packages also in a category view will be more understandable. > > - back button in browser, like on web browsers! > > - why hierarchy button opens a new browser, why rather not toggle > hierarchy/category view in the same window? > > - in general: avoid opening new windows, rather "reuse" the same one. > This is the current usability trend elsewhere. > > - What about introducing tabs in browser? This is very very useful and > handy, mostly because we are used of tabs from web browsers. > > - Browser opens just too small size. It should open in a size > recomendable for further development (like for encouraging the 10 > lines per method rule) > > - What if we introduce "add class", "add method" etc. dialogs in menu > too? Yes yes I know, but look from a newcomer perspective.. > > - Search line on the top of browser should have a 'Search:' at the > start, to find it easily with an eye. What if it ignore the > upper/lowercase by default. Users are used of ignore-case search from > elsewhere, like Google. > > - Inspector and explorer still two different but very similar things. > Inspector is now much better than before, having tree view of > inspected object do we still need to add confusion with additional > explorer? > > - Help needs a search field. API docs hierarchy is quite deep and > without a search near to unusable. Also, in a System browser there > need to be a link to the corresponding help text. And vice versa, > link to the class in browser from help. > > - Still no breakpoints! Please introduce them, Squeak/Pharo seems > nowadays the only Smalltalk without breakpoints! > > - why isn't a class comment visible below the class definition in the > same pane, as was once? > > - Undocumented classes should have a special mark to encourage > commenting them. Maybe that question mark button (?) in red color? > > - Popup menu in method pane is too large, some choices not really so > important to be there (like paste..., explore it, do again(redo?) ) > - Popup menu: choices find, find again, extended search should be > joined in one find... > - Popup menu: set breakpoint, clear breakpoint > > > Best regards > Janko > > > -- > Janko Mivšek > Svetovalec za informatiko > Eranova d.o.o. > Ljubljana, Slovenija > www.eranova.si > tel: 01 514 22 55 > faks: 01 514 22 56 > gsm: 031 674 565 > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
