On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Thierry Goubier <thierry.goub...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Le 24/04/2015 10:11, p...@highoctane.be a écrit : > >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com >> <mailto:esteba...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I disagree… DarkTheme is just for certain tastes, while regular one, >> while probably dated, is more “standard”. >> Also, DarkTheme is not ready. yeah, yeah… it works and works fine >> most of the time… but not *all* the time (take for example find >> string dialog… I never found the time to fix it, and nobody >> complained so… :P). Finally. we need to adopt SVG icons (in my TODO >> list since a couple of months, I will deliver soon, I hope), >> otherwise they do not look good (this is a problem eclipse itself >> had it… we are just inheriting it :) ) >> >> But a good question would be: How can we push forward our UI, >> besides using a darker or clearer theme? >> I would like to hear some opinions here :) >> >> >> >> I'd like to have some solution for that "windows popping up everywhere" >> thing. AltBrowser has some good ideas. >> >> In fact I'd like to have AltBrowser and Nautilus together (as in >> additional entries in the "Browse", "Browse Scoped", ..."Alt Browse", >> "Alt Browse Scoped") >> >> Also, having a way to see a class with all the methods in a long pane. >> Yeah, Smalltalk is all about short methods but it is hard to explain >> things to people when looking at a ravioli at a time. >> > > Like the Newspeak browser? > Don't know about that one. > > Navigating hierarchies should be made easier (switching on the >> "hier/flat" button gets tiring). >> > > This one is difficult to solve. > Maybe a popup with the hierarchy would do (with some keybinding, like C-h) > > I need to see how spotter will make this easier anyway. Still not using >> it, need to bring all my code to 4.0 before. >> > > I'm a bit: Spotter is an external tool to the browser. If my searches are > well answered in the browser, I'll prefer to avoid switching back and forth > between two GUIs. > > It would be nice to have a closer integration between Browser and Spotter. > When looking at methods, Spotter and AltBrowser show a very similar GUI: > context tree on the left (i.e. where is the element in the overall scheme), > element/work pane on the right. Like all the tree-based browsers have done > in the past, really (the Star browser, the Whisker browser). > > Which makes Spotter a kind of reimplementation of a tree browser with > object-driven representations on the right... was that a project by Alain > Plantec in the Squeak days? > > Thierry > > Phil >> >> >> > >
