Damien Cassou wrote: > What is Pharo for you? What would you like to see when you click on a > Pharo icon? A terminal saying that you didn't pass an image to the VM? > For me, the entry point to Pharo should be the launcher. Just like the > entry point to Eclipse is the workspace selector.
+10 I agree with Damien and for sure Pharo is more than the development environment we all know of. Meanwhile it is also a whole universe of additional projects. The Pharo launcher is the gate to the Pharo world once installed. One can not only download and start the release images (2.0/3.0/...) of Pharo but also additional project images like Moose, Roassal, Seaside, ... Maybe if the initial list of images is empty the Launcher should suggest to help download and start the latest Pharo base image release. This may increase the first time experience, because not anybody knows about this tree structure on the right and selecting the correct image first. Always think of a newbee who has no glue about VM/images/metacello packages/CI/... but who downloads the installer. He should be guided up to a running image with a workspace where he can try his first baby steps like Transcript show: 'HelloPharoWorld' It is highly important that it is easy to get there, otherwise people will turn away easily. So first impression counts! Thanks Torsten
