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