Yes, yes, yes...

At 2:20 -0500 1/11/01, Doug Way wrote:
>Dan Ingalls wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> 3185fixSwitches-raa -- Bob Arning -- 9 January 2001
>> Many changes to Browser to used fixed height panes where appropriate"
>>
>> 3186fixedBrowser2-raa -- Bob Arning -- 10 January 2001
>> Another browser fixed-pane change - wrap the fixed-height panes together
>> with one of the scroll panes so that it is easier to perform the most
>> likely resizings and keep the fixed-height ones fixed. At this time it
>> only affects the System Category Browser so we can decide if it is an
>> improvement."
>
>This is fantastic.  Since I saw the new LayoutFrame stuff added recently
>I was hoping this was coming soon.  Before this, if you had the optional
>buttons and annotations panes on, trying to enlarge the text pane in the
>browser was something of a nightmare. :)
>
>So basically, my vote is that yes, 3186 is an improvement... I'm looking
>forward to seeing fixed-panes in more windows.  (I suppose one very
>slight problem is that the annotation pane information will (only
>rarely) not fit on one line, but widening the entire browser is usually
>enough to bring it all into view.  I also notice that the optional
>buttons pane in the browser is now partly translucent, perhaps this was
>to help view wrapped annotation pane info (?), although that doesn't
>work for me.  Unfortunately, this translucency looks sort of ugly in
>8-bit color mode, which is the Squeak default... I think it might be
>better turned off unless it's really needed.  (Or use Color>>darker instead.))
>
>- Doug Way
>  dway at riskmetrics.com

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