:)
What I suggest is take one point at a time.
Make it clear and we will discuss it.
I can tell you that I'm easy with doru about GT but we discuss based on
argument and we will improve.
Stef
On 2/10/14 17:19, kilon alios 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.
