>> yes you are right, but also you are digressing :) >> my question is simple: do you think this small change can help or is useless?
is it not enough that I said " I think it makes sense to display only the name of the repository instead of its web location " ? My philosophy on GUI design is to keep it as simple as possible (noob friendly )and make as customisable as possible (experienced user friendly). So in this case a section displaying paths can be made hidden by default and the user will be able to make it unhidden. This way none will complain or have a good reason to complain about the change and should not be difficult to implement. I don't like the approach of monticello of "let put everything in a single GUI " , its near impossible to understand it without documentation and frankly its not that complex to justify this difficulty. >> For laptops monitors (i.e. the 1366x768 and 1440x900 that are fairly common), some are too large: Nautilus, >> GTPlayground. >> (But for GTPlayground, it may be on purpose :)) I happen to have such a laptop the 2010 macbook air. Lets be sincere most coders have normal sided monitors (20''+ for desktop , 15''+ laptop) and a FULL HD resolution is the standard nowdays. I have an air but my main work is with retina 27'' 2013 imac. I use air when I am in the move or just in the bed before going to sleep hacking pharo. I know coders that also love working with 2 monitors. Its impossible to create a design that fits all unless the gui is highly dynamic like what modern websites are doing nowdays. So there is definetly a lot of room for improvement on GUI design for Pharo and small size monitors is not the main reason to change the design. A good excuse would be as Stef puts it most of time "we dont have the people or the money to do this in the near future". But even for me with retina display and 27'' the gui design is a big issues because I end up opening tons of pharo windows. I hope I do my small part to help the overall gui experience with pharo and maybe others will join too to make "pharo is yours" reality.
