[squeak-dev] Re: shortening the World menu

Chris Muller ma.chris.m at gmail.com
Tue May 20 01:21:05 UTC 2014


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 19.05.2014, at 20:08, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Marcel Taeumel
>> <marcel.taeumel at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
>>> That's right. But what about Workspace, Transcript and Test Runner? Where do
>>> you spawn them from? Anyway, I just thought of different ways for opening an
>>> empty browser. :)
>>
>> My thoughts are, since the World menu bears responsibility for
>> providing access to the entire system, it should not also be a
>> short-cut mechanism.  There are already so many ways to make
>> short-cuts.  The "open.." menu can be tacked up onto the desktop.
>> Individual menu entries can be cloned and dragged straight into to the
>> Docking Bar.  There's also Control+3 and also the hot-keys.
>>
>> With all of those, additional access from the main World menu starts
>> to become less valuable than a shorter World menu.
>>
>
> The World Menu is the most immediate thing you can get access with.
> It has to has the most relevant short cuts. IMHO, lets put “the whole system”
> somewhere else, be it in a submenu of the world menu, or one of the
> other menus.
>
> The left-click menu is the only thing that predictably always gives
> the same result (not true for the other menus, thanks to platform differences
> and swap mouse buttons) AND is discoverable (not true for shortcuts and
> whatever ctrl-3 is, I have no image at hand).

Ok, I'm convinced.  What about those other entries I mentioned?  Are
you ok about trimming any of those?


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