On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Andreas Wacknitz <a.wackn...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I have convinced a friend to take a closer look at Pharo 1.2.1 and Dolphin > Smalltalk. He is an experienced Java developer. > After some time he started to complain about Pharo. I was discussing with > him and now think that he has some valid points. > > His biggest complaint is: "Why does Pharo always show windows at sizes and > positions I don't want?" > I answered him: You could set the standard window size in the class > RealEstateAgent and furthermore you can create or change >>initialExtent > methods in every class that is involved. > But his answer was: Why should I do that? It's the responsibility of an > IDE. I don't want to program elementary things of my IDE. Why is there no > mechanism that let a user set the sizes and positions of windows? Netbeans > and Eclipse are doing that nicely. Why isn't it possible in Pharo? > After that discussion I now question my own way of using Pharo and Squeak. > I have created some changesets that I used to file in when using > a fresh image. But that seems stupid now... > > His second complaint was that he doesn't like the cluttered windows. While > programming he had a lot of open windows and told me that he lost overview. > This is why I've started TilingWindowManager. Could you friend give some feedback ? Laurent. > Especially in Pharo he is complaining about minimized windows that are hard > to distinguish. He better likes Dolphin with tabbed windows that are common > in other IDE's. > > > Regards > Andreas > > > > >
