Am 31.05.2011 um 09:38 schrieb laurent laffont: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Andreas Wacknitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have convinced a friend to take a closer look at Pharo 1.2.1 and Dolphin > Smalltalk. He is an experienced Java developer. > After some time he started to complain about Pharo. I was discussing with him > and now think that he has some valid points. > > His biggest complaint is: "Why does Pharo always show windows at sizes and > positions I don't want?" > I answered him: You could set the standard window size in the class > RealEstateAgent and furthermore you can create or change >>initialExtent > methods in every class that is involved. > But his answer was: Why should I do that? It's the responsibility of an IDE. > I don't want to program elementary things of my IDE. Why is there no > mechanism that let a user set the sizes and positions of windows? Netbeans > and Eclipse are doing that nicely. Why isn't it possible in Pharo? > After that discussion I now question my own way of using Pharo and Squeak. I > have created some changesets that I used to file in when using > a fresh image. But that seems stupid now... > > His second complaint was that he doesn't like the cluttered windows. While > programming he had a lot of open windows and told me that he lost overview. > > > This is why I've started TilingWindowManager. Could you friend give some > feedback ? > > Laurent.
Laurent, I looked at TWM and it looked promising but I think it's only a complement to what I have in mind: A user should be able to save window sizes and positions as defaults. The TWM makes my life easier but still can't guess what I really want. Regards Andreas
