[squeak-dev] Gofer versus Installer was: The Trunk: Morphic-laza.489.mcz

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Tue Dec 14 22:11:14 UTC 2010


2010/12/14 Miguel Cobá <miguel.coba at gmail.com>:

>>
>> The purpose for continuing to refer to colors is for the added level
>> of indirection required by Squeak's platform-independence...   So we
>> don't have to say, in all dcoumentation:  "If you're running on
>> Windows, press the right button, if a Mac the Command-click, etc."
>
> Maybe, but you're exchanging that for "read XXX wiki page and learn what
> a blue button/menu is, no matter that in the real no new computer comes
> with blue buttons"
>

As I understood it, even the Alto rarely had coloured mouse buttons,
they were most often black.
So virtuality of these colours does not appear to be a new thing.
Is that true ?

Nicolas



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