Thoughts from an outsider
Rich Warren
rwmlist at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 07:40:01 UTC 2006
On Sep 5, 2006, at 5:21 AM, tim Rowledge wrote:
>
> On 4-Sep-06, at 10:44 PM, Rich Warren wrote:
>
>>
>> Just to bring this full circle. Now that I've been using Squeak
>> for a while, I've grown used to it's UI. I find that using
>> QuickSilver, I can still pop out of a full-screen Squeak session
>> with just a few keystrokes,
> I don't understand why you would choose to use Squeak fullscreen if
> you want to feel connected with your OS; it seems like a strategy
> almost guaranteed to make the worst of squeaks' use of a single
> window. I don't think I've used fullscreen form since 1989 - and
> before then it was simply impossible to do otherwise because my OS
> simply didn't have other windows!
Space for more windows. Space for organizing windows. There's never
enough space.
I've gotten lazy on my mac desktop. I can have dozens of windows open
and because of the way I work (a combination of Quicksilver and
Expose) I can dance between them with ease.
When working in Squeak, I like to have as similar a setup as
possible. I often have two or three browsers open (all on different
parts of code). I will have at least one workspace and a transcript--
at a minimum. Other windows rapidly accumulate.
It's not as easy to shuffle between windows, so I like to lay them
out so they are as visible as possible (or so it's easy to bring the
desired window to the foreground with a single mouse click).
Quicksilver and Expose make this a partial solution. I can still jump
from Squeak to my desktop and back with ease. What I can't do is
place a small browser window over a near-full screen safari window,
so I could reference information from a web page while I code without
having to move anything.
-Rich-
(Just to be clear to everyone who has already commented on possible
solutions for this, I'm not ignoring you, I'm just trying to answer
the question at hand.)
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