[squeak-dev] Fwd: [Pharo-project] usability of Pharo and Squeak
Ramon Leon
ramon.leon at allresnet.com
Tue May 31 23:22:01 UTC 2011
> +1
> at this point i am usually closing everything without even considering
> what window does what,
> and start over again :)
Ditto.
> i dunno. many tabs are not anything better than many windows.
> you will still lose time clicking on them till you will find one you wanted.
Sure they are, tabs allow you to cycle through windows meaningfully,
browser > workspace > transcript > process explorer, without getting
stuck flipping through 15+ browsers. Once you've found the program you
want, generally speaking, there's a way to cycle through it's tabs
quickly to find what you want. Tabs give you context sensitive cycling
through open things. Alt + tab through windows, find program, ctrl +
tab through open things in that program. Vastly more productive than
just having everything open a bunch of windows.
More importantly, that's how the rest of the world already works,
Linux/Windows/Mac all support this; Smalltalk, no no... so busy worried
about inventing the future it doesn't notice it got left behind.
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Ramon Leon
http://onsmalltalk.com
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