:) Doru
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
