Quick suggestion - why don't you toss up a quickie popup menu when 
"all" is selected and make the user select a category (including create 
new).  Sort of like what you get when you've mistyped a variable name 
and you get a popup with a list of likely candidates.  That would seem 
to be the most likely solution to guarantee properly categorized 
methods.

The problem with "as yet unclassified" is that folks often don't go 
back to clean up.


On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 09:16  PM, Norton, Chris wrote:

> Since Carl & I implemented the '--all--' feature, I'm invested in this
> discussion; sorry I missed out on the earlier thread.
>
> The intention of the '--all--' feature is clear, I think.  Prior to the
> feature, the browsers were very unfriendly, in that you had to hunt & 
> peck
> through each method category to find a method.
>
> The intentional implementation of this feature is that when you click 
> on a
> class, the '--all--' category will be selected by default, offering 
> you a
> quick look at a pane-full of the available protocol.  At least one
> commercial Smalltalk works this way (Visual Smalltalk Enterprise).
>
> The original design of the '--all--' feature also provided for adding
> methods while the '--all--' is selected.  The new method should go 
> into the
> 'as yet unclassified' category, which should be dynamically generated 
> if it
> does not already exist.
>
> I was not aware that this feature was broken.  I guess I normally 
> create or
> select categories prior to creating new methods.
>
> In my opinion, we should just fix the bug(s) so that the feature works 
> as I
> originally designed it to work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ---==> Chris
>