>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:
>
>> On 27.01.2014, at 23:19, 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:
>>
>> I find no value in the resizing that is done.
>>
>>
>> A lot of thoughtful consideration, design, and implementation work
>> went into it.  It's a major productivity boost.  It alleviates 90% of
>> manual sizing otherwise required by the user in a typical day.
>>
>>
>> Chris, I appreciate the things you add to Squeak. But as a release
>> manager, you have to wear a different hat. Now, a couple of days before the
>> release, is not a good time to introduce a major UI change. That needs to
>> be done at the beginning of a release cycle, not at the end of it.
>>
>
> +1.
>
> And I *hate* it ;-).
>

(You guys are really adept at souring my mood today!)


> It would be sort-of if it resized once, on opening.
>

That won't work, because as soon as your pane-state changes in the
already-opened window, you'll have truncated info again.


> But it resizes all the time
>

No, it does NOT do that.  If it did, I wouldn't use it myself.

Eliot, just hold still for 5 seconds after opening a window.  Let it do its
work to settle in and find the optimal sizes.  Is it still moving after 5
seconds?  I doubt it.

This is why I used my higher bike-gear analogy yesterday.  Because when I
see others working in demo videos and in person, I notice a kind of
"freneticism" about their mousing and clicking (like trying to go fast on a
bike in 1st gear).  Hyper-clicking around.  Doing tons of input work while
the machine sits there as if basking on the beach.

You have to learn to slow down, let the machine some work, and harness that
work.  Only then will you be in the higher bike gear and going faster with
less effort.

which I find horribly horribly distracting.
>

Yes, it was distracting for me for 2 or 3 days.  Then, something amazing
happened -- my style of working, perhaps subconciously, "adjusted itself".
 As if my body "learned" about when the optimizations would happen (e.g.,
opening a window, selecting a method, etc.), and then learning how to let
that _amplify_ connection to the UI, rather than letting myself be
distracted by it.

It's not something that can be understood in just an hour of trying it.
 Sorry.

Please, please Chris, wear your release manager's hat
>

I take exception to you and Bert suggesting that I haven't been.  As I
explained yesterday, my reason for turning this on was FOR the release..


> and take this out.
>

..but it was already taken out today because of everyone's personal
negative reactions.  Hey, so maybe that proves my intuitions about turning
it on are wrong.


> Introduce it for 4.6 (as a preference).
>

It is already a preference.
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