On 02 Oct 2014, at 21:36, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:19 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. > > I will concede that the contextual menu is incomplete. We will work on that. > In the meantime, the keybindings work as in the classic workspace. >
And one needs to take into account that the “pull” strategy for menu items is
much better than a “push”: Instead of adding just everything that was there,
wait till people
get *really* upset and implement it. This proves that they *really* need it :-)
In a way we used that strategy *a lot* for Pharo… we removed so many menu
entries everywhere. Or Settings… the amount of settings that I removed, I guess
>100?
And the fun thing is: nobody ever complained :-)
But if I would have asked: you can be sure that someone reacts like “I never
used it but now that you tell me, I want to keep it”.
(this is true for every unused feature. Just remove and wait. Never ask. If you
ask you will have to keep it. People react to removing unused features as if
you would
take something away from them that was just stored securely for bad times, as
if it would be deeply ingrained in our genes or something).
Marcus
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