[squeak-dev] Re: [ANN] Squeak 5.1 Feature Freeze -- Trunk closed for new features; only bug fixes or text updates

marcel.taeumel Marcel.Taeumel at hpi.de
Sat Aug 13 06:20:52 UTC 2016


tim Rowledge wrote
>> On 12-08-2016, at 1:49 PM, Chris Muller <

> asqueaker@

> > wrote:
>> 
>>>> And if I manually try `PreferenceWizardMorph new openInWorld` I see the
>>>> entire thing, and on choosing ‘configure it looks as if the default
>>>> window size is too small to fit the config options in. I needed to make
>>>> it quite a bit bigger to lay out correctly.
>>> 
>>> And why the multiple 1 second delays? It makes it appear as if Squeak is
>>> really slow, which probably wasn’t the intention.
>> 
>> I was just thinking how innovative the little pauses were.  A UI tool
>> to delineate and direct the users eyes to the sequence of elements to
>> look at.
>> 
>> The delays feel intentional, as if it was designed for a refined human
>> consumption experience.  It feels relaxed, not a strained feel as if
>> Squeak were
>> struggling to keep up because it were slow.
> 
> If we were fading in/out smoothly - which usually requires some
> exponential rate of change with acceleration and decceleration -  I’d
> likely agree. And of course, I’m testing this out on a box that is maybe
> 10% of your machine’s performance. 
> 
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; 

> tim@

> ; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Strange OpCodes: IO: Illogical Or

We had a little hick-up with that one build, here is what it looks like with
http://files.squeak.org/5.1beta/Squeak5.1beta-16395-32bit-r3397-All-in-One.zip

<http://forum.world.st/file/n4910837/welcome-wizard.png> 

Best,
Marcel



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