I have to work again on Spec and on this chapter to make it more sexy :) But basically, I think it can help to avoid having to don again and again the same UIs from scratch :)
Ben On Jan 12, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >> >> I am all for people trying/prototyping new stuff, new ideas; that's one of >> the strong points of Smalltalk. >> >> However, I think/feel that for most Smalltalk developers, the combination of >> Language+Libraries+IDE in its current state is way better than anything else >> out there, why else would we keep using it, why else would we choose it >> above other environments ? >> >> In that perspective, I am a bit wary about people who want to change it all >> to make it so much better, especially if they are not experienced >> Smalltalkers. > > People should show and we will decide :) > >> BTW, what is the current state of Nautilus ? > > Benjamin is waiting for me to work on RPackage :( > Else it is working well. Now he started to implement all the widgets > necessary to support refactoring > and since he started to get bored to redo all the time the same we started to > explore reuse. > > Skip the beginning of this document and have a look at how we can reuse UI > elements. > This is on my todo since mid december to read it calmly. > > <Spec.pdf> > >> >> When working with Camillo during the last sprint, he had Nautilus in his >> image and it seemed to work well. >> >> Sven >
