Scott Wallace wrote:
> 
> My sense is that many people do prefer to use these panes if they 
> know about them.  [...]  So my inclination is to 
> have the ancillary panes showing by default.  Certainly anyone who 
> proactively did *not* want them would have no difficulty in turning 
> them off in Preferences.

This is certainly true.  Another possibility just occurred to me, as
well: Squeak could use an introduction to the preferences, in which
the most commonly used preferences are briefly described.

> Everyone with opinions to register regarding the out-of-box settings 
> of these two preferences, or those of any other preference, 
> parameter, project color, default object size, default font, etc.: 
> this would be a good time to make yourselves heard.

I would like the optional button frames and browser instance/?/class
switch buttons to be shorter, say 20 pixels instead of 25.  (Hmm, that
actually doesn't look so great on the optional button pane, so maybe
cancel that part.)

-Jesse