Yes, this is a serious problem in my opinion. Alexandre
On Jun 11, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Yuriy Tymchuk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I would also add here the issue with side-scroll handling. I don’t know if > anybody uses this “feature” but it’s really annoying that when you use > trackpad it always switches focus to adjacent panels. > > Uko > > On 04 Jun 2014, at 17:36, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> A couple of weeks ago we started to plan Pharo4. This work became stagnated >> for many reasons, but mainly because I needed to travel to Argentina. >> Now I'm slowly resuming the work and I wanted to share with you what we have >> been talking/dreaming. >> In esence, we have two important drivers for this release: >> >> 1) Improving tools >> Turns out that we have introduced a lot of kernel improvements (opal >> compiler, layouts, slots, etc.) and tools are still not aware of them. Even >> worst: we have traits since a lot of time and our tools are still now aware >> enough to provide good interoperability. >> But not just that: we have introduced things that are not well used yet: >> keybindings (who do not want a better keybindings structure... coherent and >> editable?), spec should allow us to continue enhancing existing tools and to >> replace old ones. >> >> 2) Modularisation >> One of the fundamental ideas behind Pharo is to provide a modular >> environment. But well... since Pharo start to the moment, we prepared things >> to allow it, but still few direct effort has been made. >> In our dreams, Pharo should be built starting for a small kernel image and >> adding different modules to get a complete version. In this idea >> Pharo=Kernel+GUI(Morphic)+Tools. >> This has huge advantages (I do not think is necesary to explain them, isn't >> ;)?) >> >> We brainstomed around this and we get this list of issues (not all of them >> directly related to the objectives, but well... good stuff also :) ) >> >> Web site: >> - add catalog >> - add videos >> - enhance it in general >> >> Infrastructure: >> - support more vm platforms >> >> VM: >> - spur >> - 64bits >> - make vm embedable and UI independent (with SDL2 and OSWindow) >> >> Image: >> - Modularisation >> - Removing old compiler >> - Repackage Morphic (to allow better modularisation) >> - Athens (replace old bitblt) >> >> Tools >> - Replace changes with Ombu/Epicea >> - Replace sources with a better abstraction >> - Git support inside image (with libgit2 + tools) >> - Pass on Spec >> - Include Glamour? >> - Make Ring unloadable >> - Fonts with FreeType >> >> And lots of bugfixes :) >> >> We would like to exchange ideas with you. >> So, what do you think? >> >> Esteban >> >> > > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
