Ergonomics - Rant

Gary Chambers gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com
Mon Jul 16 14:13:03 UTC 2007


Indeed, would be nice if it monitored new senders of the method selector
too!
Though, as I know, that would be rather cpu heavy. Best to treat it as a
snapshot at the time it was asked for.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Michael
Rueger
Sent: 16 July 2007 2:55 pm
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Subject: Re: Ergonomics - Rant


David Mitchell wrote:
> Damien, I agree with Todd on this one.
> 
> While it is certainly a defensible position to say that the method 
> should disappear because after editing, it doesn't match the browser's 
> criteria, but I think it is less useful.
> 
> That is, I think of the senders browser as being a filter on open not 
> a continuously updating filter. Once open, I want to edit my code. I 
> don't want it to keep on filtering.

Classic case of two different use cases. Can't cover both at once ;-)

A little check box "keep on truck^h^h^h^h^hfiltering" would allow for 
both ways to use the filtered list.

Michael




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