Flexible squeak - a call for extension mechanisms

Brent Vukmer bvukmer at blackboard.com
Mon Jul 14 22:24:57 UTC 2003


> 
> 
> To give an example of what happens to the UI under 
> generalization, just look at the open menu in Squeak:
> 
> 	1. The items are completely unsorted.  It used to be 
> that, for example, thet Internet clients all showed up in the 
> same part of the list.
> 
> 	2. The items use different capitalization, making them 
> harder to read. 
> (IRC chat, Package Loader, web browser)
> 
> 	3. The items use generally different styles of 
> description.  Some of them use acronyms (VMMaker), while 
> others spell out the tool in extreme detail (Bug Fixes 
> Archive Viewer).
> 

I'd be happy to follow UI guidelines for open-menu registration...



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