[squeak-dev] Squeak 4.5 Release Candidate 3

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Tue Feb 4 21:28:24 UTC 2014


On 04-02-2014, at 9:12 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> http://ftp.squeak.org/4.5alpha/Squeak4.5-13671.zip
> 
No show-stoppers so far. Plumbin loads up ok, which is probably the nearest to a stress test I can think of in the middle of work ;-)

One thing we probably ought to clean up at some point is the Preferences. There’s plenty of scope for confusion in the button row; 
the ‘default’ button doesn’t set things to how the image is delivered - at the very least the flaps seem to turn on. (Looks like Preferences class>defaultValueTableForCurrentRelease would need whacking on)
‘save’ & ‘save to disk’ would seem redundant (I know they’re actually different but would any new user?)
similarly ‘load’ & ‘load from disk’
save & load to disk only load a specific file with no option to choose which one
the balloon help is sufficiently translucent as to be almost indecipherable
… and the text is often confused
the themes seem rather out of date - ‘out of the box’ is for 3.2? Wow.

I very, very, rarely touch preferences, which is why I don’t think I’ve really noticed this before and besides, we should try to use new eyes when checking out a release candidate. I’ll Mantisize the above. (http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7808 FYI)

tim
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