On 18 Jun 2014, at 14:43, Pavel Krivanek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> most of issues with shrinking to the basic headless image are related to
> UserManager. Currently UserManager is subclass of DummyUserManager and I
> really think that we should change it to use the similar approach as the
> UIManager.
>
> UserManager (abstract class)
> - DummyUserManager (for no real users management)
> - KeyChainUserManager (or some other name, current UserManager class)
>
> The second option is to avoid the next strange "Dummy" class and make
> UserManager as concrete class with void functionality.
>
> It will be called using UserManager default or UserManager current instead of
> current Smalltalk tools userManager that makes unwelcome dependency of the
> kernel on tools.
> BTW I think that the message #current would be much better for UIManager too
> because it should be possible to use multiple UIs for the same image at once
> (e.g. Morphic and web-based UI)
>
> What do you think?
>
Yes, sounds good. The "Smalltalk tools userManager” is really not good as it is
not a tool in the sense of “Smalltalk tools”.
Marcus
