On Tuesday 02 April 2002 17:46, you wrote:
On Saturday, March 30, 2002, at 01:08 PM, Serg Koren wrote:
... That
said, we could always use some better beginner documentation. ideally put from the perspective of the newbie. Perhaps Serg will undertake the journey and contribute the same.
Well, yes, but... The Windows install works fine, at least on Win95, but I never did get the tarball install working on Linux... kept missing libraries that I couldn't find. Finally I just removed it from my disk and then went to rpmfind. That provided me with the necessaries, and now I have a working version. But I started off trying to follow the install instructions, and it was a disaster. I nearly gave up (well, I did give up on the process...)
The Squeak 3.0 greeting screen is pretty, but doesn't give a newcomer much idea of where to go and what to do. Squeak 2.5 was much better. Morphic is worth being proud of, but either the tutorials need to reflect it, or, possibly better, the initial screen should look more like that of Squeak 2.5, and the "World of Squeak" should be first called from a workspace window, and later a part of the introductions should tell how to set it as the default first screen. This would give people a workable intro without reducing the power or convenience. (If I hadn't previously briefly looked at Squeak 2.5 I'd really have been lost.)
I can't talk about the tutorials yet, as I'm not through my first one. But consider including them with the distribution (and callable from within Squeak).
It is a weakness of the Win95 Squeak implementation that the screen cannot be resized. Presumably there is some programmatic way to do this, but if the containing window is resized, then ideally the colored backgrounds, and the size of the working surface would be resized.