Hehe, AFAIK, "frustration time" isn't a proper phrase, it's just something
I made up to try and describe the time it takes from starting up a new
program I've never seen before, until it makes me frustrated. In the best
of cases that never happens, and I must say that it's highly personal, and
depends largely on my expectations at the time.

In this case, I had already decided to buy the app, not knowing if I would
have a use for it, just because I like to do things to help the Smalltalk
community in any way that I can. In the back of my mind I also hoped it
might be something I could use with my kids, to show them a bit about
geometry, maths in general, and maybe even Smalltalk. I was not expecting a
beautiful, polished finish, nor much in the way of documentation, but I'd
hoped that, given a few minutes of time, there would be enough clues to be
found by clicking and prodding around, to be able to make it do something
cool.

Sadly, during the time I had available during that first look, I didn't
manage to make anything happen at all, and I felt frustrated. I fear that
someone with higher expectations might have become cross at that point, and
that's why I wanted to suggest a tutorial button. Now I know that I just
need to go and watch those demo videos before I try next time :-)

Good luck!

-- 
Cheers,
Peter

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Hilaire Fernandes <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Peter,
>
> It will be terribly useful if you describe me where you get your
> frustration time.
>
> Thanks
>
> Hilaire
>
> Le 16/09/2012 11:53, Peter Hugosson-Miller a écrit :
> > Never having seen the app before, I was unable to find a help or
> tutorial button within my personal "frustration time". May I suggest that
> first-time users be started up in some kind of "newbie mode"?
>

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