To all new users, I recommend taking an hour to go through all the
preferences in the Preferences browser, read the descriptions and
experiment with them and and determine which setting is to your
liking.  That hour will pay you back 100-fold per year because work
will be enhanced by a system that responds better to how you work.


On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cross post from where?
>
> Also, I guess that the subject meant to say "elite".  Is that pejorative?
> If so, what are your negative feelings about "the squeak elite"?  This
> community should be inclusive and welcoming; we're too small to prosper
> otherwise.  So if people are feeling excluded,  or marginalized, we should
> discuss why and see if we can do something about it.
>
> _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
>
> On May 7, 2016, at 5:53 AM, ReliableRobots.com <reliablerobots at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> On 5/6/16, Kirk Fraser <overcomer.man at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Byte magazine which published the balloon concept for Smalltalk rising
>> above the ivory tower of a lighthouse guiding the way in a sea of computer
>> languages is out of business. I think it is time for the Squeak balloon to
>> be grounded to connect with the reality of why computer languages exist -
>> to make things easy for application developers.  So I propose all Squeak
>> developers stop "improving" Squeak for one year and spend the time writing
>> useful applications in Squeak.  That could lead to a basket of new ideas
>> for next year.  Maybe make this a regularly scheduled event - a half year
>> for applications and a half year for Squeak?
>>
>> The reason motivating this suggestion is on the advice of a Squeak-Dev
>> member, I downloaded the latest all in one and to my chagrin, I found an
>> improvement that made Squeak as worthless as a balloon full of machine gun
>> holes.    The Workspace window gets halos with a right mouse click on a
>> standard 2 button laptop mouse.  So I'll return to an older Squeak for
>> now.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> In which version of Squeak does this happen?  4.6 or 5.0?
>
> --Hannes
>
> Not just any 5.0 but 15113, the most recent download available on 5/5/16.
>
> In college I read teachers discovered innovation for the sake of innovation
> was worthless.  It is time Squeak-Dev learned that and only make useful
> improvements.  I can't remember the Halo ever once being useful.  Take a
> class in SolidWorks and do that in Squeak instead of Morphic an other not
> useful improvements. A fast VM is useful, but sometimes working applications
> are more useful than a library of stubs.
>
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