… which of course, it does not means new tools does not need enhancement/adjustments, and we all can collaborate by reporting issues, and ideas of what we would like of it. but yes, it needs a change of mindset to adopt them.
Esteban > On 02 Oct 2014, at 17:34, Alexandre Bergel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Kilon, > > Yesterday, at a conference in software engineering, someone shown a new > programming environment and made an experiment with users. The authors have > shown that users with the _most experience_ in programming technologies are > the most negative users. On the opposite, users with less experience in > programming environment enjoyed it very much. > > Your email clearly goes in the first pattern. > > At the beginning I was also in the same situation: I could not make up my > mind with GT. Including GT in Pharo is really what could happen the best of > our future. > > Alexandre > > On Oct 2, 2014, at 12:19 PM, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is it just me or is the Playground a big step back in the usability of Pharo >> ? >> >> For me its Gui makes no sense. Gone is the right click menu which had tons >> of useful actions now you only get like a few options. The tab thing is >> weird to say the least with the navigation of the tabs being in the opposite >> side (bottom) of the navigation of the internal tabs(top). No more right >> arrow menu for shortcuts and many features that workspace had. No ability to >> resize the panel tabs . Weird terminolgy like "All ref" and "Meta". Meta >> tab you have to select the first item and then the other first item and then >> it displays fully . >> >> Also how one closes a tab panel ? Is it possible ? I tried everything but i >> cant get them to close. >> >> I click a method and instead of opening a panel on the bottom for the source >> as I would expect ,make my workspace area disappear and create a new panel >> that sends me to state, whatever this is. Then I have to click on the source >> tab. This is one of the most annoying guis I have used in an IDE. >> >> Ironically the meta tab has got this right , name of class - method names >> and source of methods . On the instance side tab there is a different kind >> of thinking , why ? >> >> Also the inspector seems to get in some kind of loop opening forever panels >> when it finds a dead end in its inspection.For example clicking self. >> >> It has some good ideas in it, but I dont like the execution. >> >> The big loss for me is the inability to create windows groups, this >> functionality provided a very nice solution to the windows mess of pharo. I >> can name my groups but also the individual windows and so the tabs have >> short names that I know what they are and names of course I can customise. >> >> I can disable it via settings but maybe I am missing something here, a some >> kind of usefulness because I don't understand or don't know how to use it >> properly. > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > >
