On 04.02.2014, at 22:28, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> On 04-02-2014, at 9:12 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> http://ftp.squeak.org/4.5alpha/Squeak4.5-13671.zip
>> 
> No show-stoppers so far. Plumbin loads up ok, which is probably the nearest to a stress test I can think of in the middle of work ;-)
> 
> One thing we probably ought to clean up at some point is the Preferences. There’s plenty of scope for confusion in the button row; 
> the ‘default’ button doesn’t set things to how the image is delivered - at the very least the flaps seem to turn on. (Looks like Preferences class>defaultValueTableForCurrentRelease would need whacking on)
> ‘save’ & ‘save to disk’ would seem redundant (I know they’re actually different but would any new user?)
> similarly ‘load’ & ‘load from disk’
> save & load to disk only load a specific file with no option to choose which one
> the balloon help is sufficiently translucent as to be almost indecipherable
> … and the text is often confused
> the themes seem rather out of date - ‘out of the box’ is for 3.2? Wow.
> 
> I very, very, rarely touch preferences, which is why I don’t think I’ve really noticed this before and besides, we should try to use new eyes when checking out a release candidate. I’ll Mantisize the above. (http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7808 FYI)

One thing while we are at preferences:
can we please enable 'List classes hierarchically' by default? It saves so much compared to
always open a hierarchy browser (which is cumbersome on a mac in the first place)

best
	-Tobias


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