On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 12:16 PM, Lex Spoon wrote:

> The issues are as follows:
>
> 	1.Users, especially new users, expect cut-and-paste to work the same 
> in
> Squeak as with the rest of their OS.
>
> 	2. Tutorials need to be as simple as possible to understand.
>
> 	3. Experienced users want to have more power available.
>
>
> What other issues are there to consider?

Habits. Experienced users have even more interest than new users in 
keyboard shortcuts working the same in Squeak as on their host platform.

I went through a very frustrating period of intensive Squeaking 
intermingled with command line work where I'd hit tab in a browser and 
then sit there waiting for selector autocompletion. Eventually I 
trained myself to use Cmd-Q for that, which became even more 
frustrating when I found myself accidentally quitting Terminal.app all 
the time.

I don't mind if I have to change my habits or form new ones, but I hate 
it when my habits are sometimes helpful, sometimes harmful and I have 
to focus on the minutia of driving the interface.

Colin