On 28.01.2014, at 09:36, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:19, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi John-Reed,
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 3:23 PM, JohnReed Maffeo <aldeveron at graffiti.net> wrote:
>>> 1. There is an interesting (and to me, unnerving) new feature in Squeak Squeak4.5-13663.
>>> 
>>> Automatic pane resizing in System Browser.
>>> 
>>> When I mouse around in a newly opened window, the panes resize their height and width in seemingly random ways.
>> 
>> It's not random at all.  The philosophy of the horizontal-splitter
>> algorithm is to 1) only expose additional information but, 2) don't
>> truncate any information to accomplish that, e.g., only encroach on
>> whitespace.
> 
> I showed this off last night at the UK Smalltalk user group, to a positive response. That may have been aided by me explaining why things were resizing. Nick Ager pointed me to Josh Gargus' Cassowary project from a while ago, which does constraint solving for UI layout.
> 
> It took me a while to get used to the resizing, but as Chris says, it does alleviate the need to move splitters around so you can see your text. One thing that would help for me is speeding up Morphic, because on my low power laptop, if there are a few windows open things get too slow for my liking. (And on my laptop slowing things even a tiny bit hits the 'too slow' threshold quite quickly.)
> 
> But really, give Chris' tweak a good try. Setting the Preference on by default at least gives the algorithm and UX a good whacking.

We really should, but not for this very release, I think.
I personally don’t like it, but this is not the point.
  Perhaps it is very useful when all the knobs are tuned,
but please let’s delay that just a tad.

Best
	-Tobias
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