Hi,

For folks with more bandwidth than CPU this is at:

ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.8alpha/Squeak3.8a-6271-unstable.zip

If when messages like these were sent around with [UPDATES UNSTABLE]
or so in the title I'd be less likely to delete them :-) Or is there
some other list I should monitor for these updates?  Thanks!

cheers

bruce


On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:39:57PM +0200, Diego Gomez Deck wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I just uploaded the huge (380Kb) changeset including the changes made in
> Small-Land image related to new UI.
> 
> See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/message/85133 for a previous
> description of the work.
> 
> Four new preferences dictates the new behavior, if you want to get the
> old UI just evaluate:
> 
> 	Preferences disable: #easySelection.
> 	Preferences disable: #maintainHalos.
> 	Preferences disable: #tabAmongFields.
> 	Preferences disable: #generalizedYellowButtonMenu.
> 	Preferences disable: #showWorldMainDockingBar.
> 
> And not forget to disable eToyFriendly preference if you miss the world
> menu:
> 
> 	Preferences disable: #eToyFriendly.
> 
> Except for any unconscious omission, the intended look&feel for a novice
> user is almost finished.  To declare finished (instead of just "almost
> finished") the new tool named "Object Hierarchy" is needed and I plan to
> start with this tool as soon as I finish to write this email.
> 
> On the other side, the behavior intended for expert/programmer user is
> incomplete.  The intention is to replace for complete the current
> world's menu with the new menu-bar.
> 
> It's not clear if we need just 2 modes (novice / expert) or 3 of them
> (novice / expert / programmer).
> 
> The system is also crying for a mechanism to registry items in menu-bar
> and in tool-bar parts of the main-docking-bar.
> 
> Help in any of these areas will be very appreciated.
> 
> To finish this email I would like to say some tools like color-changers,
> geometry-changers, text attributes changers, etc that impact on the
> selected object could improve the usability of the new changes, again
> any help is welcome.
> 
> Enjoy it,
> 
> -- Diego
> 
> 
> 

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