Good luck for that. 
I will have a look because the tool which allows to watch package dependencies 
embeds the Nautilus Browser, and i'm one of the maintainer at this time. 

Baptiste 

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> De: "Nicolai Hess" <[email protected]>
> À: "Pharo Development List" <[email protected]>
> Envoyé: Jeudi 24 Juillet 2014 10:23:15
> Objet: [Pharo-dev] Refactor Nautilus

> If no one raises objections, I would like to start on refactor / cleanup
> nautilus code.

> This includes:

> renaming / recategorizing
> solve code critics shown in Critics Browser
> split classes (AbstractNautilusUI has 427 methods 24 instvars )
> stronger separation between the browser model, browser state
> and browser UI.

> review event handling and UI updating
> (sometimes there is a difference between what the UI shows
> as selected and the selection the model(s) holds

> maybe:
> create one package pane widget for package and groups
> (therefore move all that package vs groups handling from
> nautilus ui to that widget)
> merge Nautilus and PackageTreeNautilus

> (I don't consider all of Nautilus bad code, it has well
> designed parts, it just has grown meanwhile...)

> How to update the code?

> Working with slices makes it easier to find changes
> that introduces new bugs.
> Otherwise it takes time to do it in such small steps and I don't
> know if those changes are reviewed at all.

> So, I would try to group the changes.
> 1. code critics
> 2. renameing/ simple refactoring
> 3. ....

> nicolai

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