[squeak-dev] About customizing Squeak -> the title of the world menu?

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Sat Feb 24 18:27:26 UTC 2018


One solution is to have some notes in the help system about
customizing Squeak. In this case the user would need to be told to
alter the method

For example to set it to something like

Preferences desktopMenuTitle
	"Answer the title to be used for the 'meta menu'.
	^ 'Project: ', Project current name



On 2/24/18, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> a third issue today about customizing Squeak. The world menu has a
> title and this is given in
>
>       Preferences desktopMenuTitle
>
> This is called in
>
>       PasteUpMorph openWorldMenu
>
>
> However the source code in  #desktopMenuTitle is from the year 2000 and it
> says
>
>
>     desktopMenuTitle
> 	"Answer the title to be used for the 'meta menu'.  For now, you can
> hard-code this,
>          later someone should make this be a parameter the user can
> easily change.
>          sw 9/6/2000"
>
> 	^ 'World'    "This is what it has always been"
>
> 	"^ 'Desktop'
> 	^ 'Squeak'
> 	^ 'Mike''s Control Panel'"
>
>
> How could a solution look like to make it possible for a user to
> easily change this parameter on a per project or per project type
> bases?
>
> Regards
>
> --Hannes
>


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