On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:56:38 +0100, Marcus Denker <denker at iam.unibe.ch>  
wrote:

>
> Am 14.12.2004 um 05:30 schrieb Michael Latta:
>
>> I am currently using a 3.7 full image, which is the current download  
>> for Mac OS/X that I could find.
>>
>> I have a number of questions that I am hoping can be answered by those  
>> longer on this list than myself:
>>
>> 1) What kind of new UI is Diego working on?
>
> Diego is leading a project in Spain that brings Squeak to 80.000  
> computers in schools. The kids that are supposed
> to use squeak are a bit older than the normal eToy kid. He has found  
> some problems that he's trying to fix. One is
> that the completely empy Squeak desktop (with no clue what to do next)  
> is very annoying to first-time users who have
> seen a computer before (kids and parents). So one thing he did is a  
> menubar, to make it explicit what
> people can do when they start squeak for the first time.
> (In germany we have seen the problem, too. A parent said to us: I, as  
> the parent, start up squeak, can't do *anything*,
> do you think I will show that my kids?)

That is a VERY on-target comment and excellent thing to address.