Hi,
  Oh, this is pretty nice straight out of the box :-)

My one wish would be to do something better when Squeak
tries to play a sound and the OS can't support it rather than 
hanging.  This is going to catch a lot of unix users out.

cheers

bruce

Scott Wallace <Scott.Wallace at disney.com> wrote:
> We're seeking opinions about the out-of-the-box settings of various 
> preferences and parameters in Squeak 3.0.
> 
> One consideration is whether or not the browsers and other tools 
> should, by default, show the optional annotation panes and button 
> panes.
> 
> My sense is that many people do prefer to use these panes if they 
> know about them.  Some long-time Smalltalkers don't like them, and 
> many newcomers don't know of them, but a preponderance of us fall 
> between those two extremes and do use 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.
> 
> (Incidentally, I think that before too long -- but after 3.0 -- we 
> will have controls that allow optional panes to be added and removed 
> on-the-fly in any window, just as they can in any modern web browser. 
> When this comes along, this should give us the best of both worlds, 
> and it will reduce the importance of whatever choice we make right 
> now regarding the optional panes.)
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   -- Scott