Two questions here:
1. The Configuration Browser is nice, but it still doesn't provide any
kind of description for the packages. I mean, looking at the list of
packages, I can probably guess what "Dependency Analyser" does, but I
have exactly zero chance in guessing what Epicea, Ephestos, Illiad,
Kendrick, Mandrill, Marina, Pastell, Pillar or Ston are about. Even a
single line description, displayed in a tooltip, would be a huge
improvement. Can this be added?
Yes this is so true. You are 100% right
this is why I started to code a catalog extracted from configurationOf.
http://ci.inria.fr/
2. SmalltalkHub seems to have no way of browsing all available
packages. When I'm starting with Pharo and I don't know how some
library I need is called, I'm essentially out of luck: I need to do
much googling or ask on a mailing list, which both take more time than
it should. I see that " The following is a preview of the exploration
features of SmalltalkHub. More to come!" message is still there - I
remember it from a year or more back. Is this considered such a low
priority task, or is it just that nobody had enough time to work on
it?
By the way: there is no package description on many package pages.
Even squeaksource tended to have at least one sentence explaining the
purpose of a package (I think?).
There is a package named "Catalog", I don't know how many people is putting
effort on it right now. I think it needs some love.
Ok, that's very nice, although the number of "Please project owner add
catalog description" and mention of "MetaRepoForPharo20" is a little
discouraging.
One more question: besides asking on a mailing list, is there any
other way of learning about it? Is it linked from somewhere, or does
it need a lot of googling and luck (ie. googling for "pharo catalog
packages" doesn't return this link, at least on the first page of
results).
In general I have a feeling that discoverability of Pharo packages is
very bad right now. It's a serious problem for new users, and even to
a bit more advanced users who return to Pharo after some time of not
following announcements.
Now i feel like having a multiclipboard would be useful (i have one on my
OS but anyway...)
There seems to be a support for this in Pharo 3.0: under right click
in an editor you have Paste and Paste... menu items. The latter
displays a thing that I think is supposed to be a list of recently
copied things.
My problem, however, is that this doesn't work with OS clipboard (on
Linux). Ctrl+V and Right click->paste don't work at all with OS
clipboard (they do when copying things inside Pharo). X Window systems
have 2 clipboards: one normal and the other called "X selection" - it
seems that the latter is not checked at all, and normal clipboard is
being accessed by Clipboard>>clipboardText (when Alt+p on "Clipboard
default clipboardText"), but it still doesn't work with Ctrl+V.
Strange.
Anyway, I have a very specific (side-)project in mind and I'm going to
try using Pharo for it, so you can expect quite a bit more questions
from me :)
Best regards,
Piotr Klibert
