On 18-Nov-09, at 9:41 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> One thing we could do is to use a plain old menu bar. This has the  
> advantage that people who try Squeak on their own get more guidance  
> about "where to click next" (the world menu is surprisingly hard to  
> discover if you don't know about it). We currently have  
> TheMainWorldDockingBar as a starting point (a bit too colorful but  
> I'm sure we can fix that) and then we could restructure that menu  
> bar along the lines of:
>
> Squeak            Tools         Projects
>  About Squeak      Browser       New Project
>  Update Squeak     Workspace     Save Project
>  Save Image        TestRunner    Load Project
>  Save Image As     FileList      Previous Project
>  Quit              ...           Jump To Project >
>
> etc. Not only would this provide newcomers with a bit more familiar  
> structure in the environment but it would also allow us to repurpose  
> the  world menu as the menu with the 10 things that we use most. For  
> me, that would be a mixture of tools and projects, and perhaps that  
> menu should then be completely customizable (i.e., like the "do..."  
> menu).
>
> How about that?

+1

Colin