[Pharo-dev] Pharo 4 Beta, first impressions

[Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev]

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3 quick things :
1) How can I get the Windows theme (W2K) that was available in Pharo 3 (it's no 
longer there in Pharo 4.0 Beta).  Having the close, maximize & minimize buttons 
to the left of every window is VERY annoying for Windows users!
2) Am I the only one annoyed by the fact that the Collection class still holds 
on to 2 class variables (one of them being an instance of Random, the other a 
mutex) for the sole purpose of accommodating the #atRandom & #atRandom: methods 
?  Even worse, the Integer class' implementation of #atRandom references the 
Collection class to use that random instance!  In other words, 
Integer>>#atRandom --> Collection>>#randomForPicking --> Random !  I've always 
been a fan of the "mind your own business" approach.  Wouldn't it make a lot 
more sense to have the Random class provide a default instance (a singleton) 
whenever other classes need such an object instead of crippling the code with 
class variables and singleton instance all over the place?
3) I'm having a few "Could not find disk drive" errors on Windows XP ( never 
had that error with Pharo 3 and I've been using it every day since it came 
out).  Am I the only one?  I ran all SUnit tests and the VM crashed "real bad". 
 Do you guys need logs/dumps/errors on the console ? -----------------
Benoit St-Jean
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