Working Together
Norton, Chris
chrisn at Kronos.com
Wed Jul 14 16:35:03 UTC 1999
> Hi Dwight & co .
>
> Actually, I guess I was hinting at Squeak's lack of a "window menu"
> feature (I know that this is a sensitive subject, so I won't belabor it
> :-). You could say that I have fully bought into the window menu concept
> that is prevalent in M$ Windows & in Macintoshes (don't know about
> UNIX/Linux). One great thing about a resident window menu is that its
> contents are right in your face. You don't have to right (or middle)
> mouse click and then follow a bunch of popup menus to find stuff.
>
> I was suggesting that the next best thing to providing a window menu
> feature to Squeak, might be to have a button or button panel (think
> toolbar w/ tooltips!) that would have commonly used features on it (like
> "update from server"). If it is right there in my face, I'm sure I'll use
> it. In fact, the first thing I always do with a new image is to open up
> the commonly used popup menus and make them stay open.
>
> ---==> Chris
>
> PS> Speaking as a recent newbie, sometimes a bigger hammer IS necessary!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dwight Hughes [SMTP:dwighth at ipa.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 12:19 PM
> To: Chris Norton
> Subject: Re: Working Together
>
> "Norton, Chris" wrote:
> > bit at first, because I didn't know how to file in new code. However,
> the
> > "update from server" feature, is great! It really should have a place
> of
> > honor on the default image. Perhaps a small morphic world with an
> "update
> > from server" button could be included somewhere on the base image.
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I'm not quite sure what you mean here -- there is already "update code
> from server" on the "help..." menu in the screen menu. Are you referring
> to updating from a local server instead?
>
> -- Dwight
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