On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:35 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is not only when teaching.
>
> I was at a conference today and showcased some Grafoscopio.
>
> Spotty wifi and crowded bandwith makes it bad looking.
>
> We need an "Airplane mode" switch.

That is a cool way to describe it.  A well know paradigm.
Its a setting that probably would change daya to day more than any other,
so perhaps it would even be reasonable to have this as a permanent
mode button on the background,
or the task bar much like MS Windows taskbar status icons.

cheers -ben

>
> Maybe can we have that available in the session from the settings.
>
> Phil
>
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:55 PM, Yuriy Tymchuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> The problem is that there are people who give lectures in universities
>> with bad internet (internet is bad in most of the universities I tried) and
>> they done want freezes. On the other hand we have people who sit in their
>> offices with fast machines, fast internet and they want features. Until now
>> we were looking at how to satisfy one of the groups and which one exactly.
>> Why not to try finding a solution for both. For example we can have the
>> plugging enabled by default and have Spotter measuring the time needed to do
>> a query. Whenever the time surpasses frustration limit (10 sec? I duno)
>> Spotter will ask if the user wants to turn off the plugin, of turns it of
>> automatically and tells where to re-enable it. The other way would be to
>> have known plugins to appear at the bottom of Spotter, and a user can
>> install/enable them with one click. So when you search but there is nothing
>> you know that there are more plugins that may solve your problem.
>>
>> Yes it is more complicated to implement in in a smart way rather them just
>> set the default boolean value of a setting, but we spend too much time
>> anyway convincing the other side that we are right…
>>
>> Uko
>>
>> > On 6 Mar 2017, at 21:30, stepharong <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > One day I would like to invite you to give a lecture in a not that bad
>> > french university
>> > with a not that good network. Each time Pharo freezes you pay me 5 Euros
>> > only and we can
>> > go and pay some really expensive restaurant with your money.
>> > Simple on my machine it times out every five minutes.
>> >
>> > <sorry I could not resist>
>> >
>> >>
>> >>> On 6 Mar 2017, at 19:51, stepharong <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> We should make it available from the catalog :)
>> >>
>> >> Yes, it most certainly should be.
>> >>
>> >> If only we could then tell user to type
>> >>
>> >> Shift-Enter Sublimish Enter
>> >>
>> >> to install it using Spotter right from the catalog ;-)
>> >>
>> >> Sorry, I couldn't resist ... <ducking>
>> >>
>> >>> 2017-03-06 9:29 GMT+01:00 Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]>:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On 6 Mar 2017, at 09:22, Pavel Krivanek <[email protected]>
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> 2017-03-06 8:20 GMT+01:00 Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]>:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> On 6 Mar 2017, at 07:57, [email protected] wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/job/Pharo-6.0-Issue-Validator-simple/7294/artifact/report.html
>> >>>>> is not integrated for some Monkey reason anyway - still should b/c if 
>> >>>>> you
>> >>>>> put sublimish, you need a decent matching Spotter.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Also, I see
>> >>>>> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/19796/Remove-duplicate-code-from-SublimishTheme
>> >>>>> on 5/3. If this moves forward, why not the other one?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> BTW Sublimish was an extra thing. Who got that in image?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I don’t know.
>> >>>> It shouldn’t :)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> What we should do is to create a page for themes and links to it (and
>> >>>> they should be in catalog) :)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Well, it was me who proposed the slice and yes, I was aware of the
>> >>>> fact that I should not do it because of code freeze (I was not aware of 
>> >>>> the
>> >>>> two themes policy).
>> >>>
>> >>> it is not a policy, it is just the idea I have :)
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> We can remove it again, I will prepare a slice.
>> >>>
>> >>> problem with it is that is makes ripples.
>> >>> If community want it (is nice), we can include it, but I would wait
>> >>> for P7, yes.
>> >>>
>> >>> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/19801/Remove-SublimishTheme
>> >>> At least it was an advertisement for this theme that moved it forward
>> >>> and the integration of it helped to improve the dark theme too. And 
>> >>> showed
>> >>> again how much we need the concept of palettes used strictly in the 
>> >>> system.
>> >>>
>> >>> -- Pavel
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Esteban
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -- Pavel
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Esteban
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Phil
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Esteban Lorenzano
>> >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> On 6 Mar 2017, at 07:17, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]>
>> >>>>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Hi,
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> First, let me be clear: I *like* sublimish theme (not for my use,
>> >>>>>> but I like it), and I like (a lot) the windows list on spotter, and I 
>> >>>>>> like
>> >>>>>> in general all this new additions.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> By the way, even if I like it, I would not have integrated
>> >>>>> SublimishTheme. For same reason I didn’t integrated DarkMetalTheme: My 
>> >>>>> idea
>> >>>>> is to have just two themes *in image*: one white, one dark, and allow 
>> >>>>> people
>> >>>>> to install other themes from catalog.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Why? Because each class inside image becomes our responsibility and
>> >>>>> then a maintainability issue. With themes in particular already 
>> >>>>> happened
>> >>>>> that existing themes became abandonware inside the image and we needed 
>> >>>>> to
>> >>>>> clean up, not without problems.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> cheers,
>> >>>>> Esteban
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> ps: which means also yes: that issue got integrated because I failed
>> >>>>> to control the flow of issues...
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> And I know, most of those additions are usability enhancements so a
>> >>>>>> good thing.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> But can you guys stop pushing new features into a (in theory)
>> >>>>>> frozen version?
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Pharo 7 will arrive soon… *if* we can fix all things missing. If I
>> >>>>>> can suggest an orientation, it would be good, for those that use 
>> >>>>>> linux and
>> >>>>>> mac (windows is not ready), to test and help fix 64bits version.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> There are still plenty of bugs to fix there, like for example why
>> >>>>>> Spotter does not shows search line.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Last week I added support to Athens and SDL2 in 64bits but that
>> >>>>>> meant:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> - some important changes in UFFI
>> >>>>>> - discover something that seems is failing on callbacks for Cairo
>> >>>>>> (no idea if it is a callbacks problem or an image problem that causes 
>> >>>>>> a
>> >>>>>> callback problem).
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> I would say all this and the fact we are working on 64bits in
>> >>>>>> general deserves a lot of testing.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> I will add links in Pharo page to download 64bits (I’m at the train
>> >>>>>> now), but in the mean time you can download all from here:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/pharo-64.zip
>> >>>>>> http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/pharo64-linux-latest.zip
>> >>>>>> (linux)
>> >>>>>> http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/pharo64-mac-latest.zip (mac)
>> >>>>>> http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/sources.zip (in case you need
>> >>>>>> them)
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> cheers,
>> >>>>>> Esteban
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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