Thanks andreas for your feedback. We are working hard and we are making a lot of progress. Now if people do not help then it will be slower. In Pharo our problem is not that we do not know the problems and we have a vision and a really cool and sexy one. Give us 4 engineers and two years and you will not recognize it at ALL. Now we work every day to make it better.
Stef On May 31, 2011, at 8:18 AM, Andreas Wacknitz 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. > 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 > > > >
