[squeak-dev] dynamic FileDialog pop-ups considered harmful
Chris Muller
asqueaker at gmail.com
Mon Dec 30 01:00:15 UTC 2019
>
> At the risk of side-tracking the thread: I'm curious, what is so insane
> about dealing with directory listings in Windows 10?
>
>
It already got side-tracked from the original topic of IDE design, which
was my fault for bringing up the secondary topic of performance. It's
okay, we did cover the primary issue which is usability of the modal popup
design. I actually love Subbu's angle of thinking about it, and our system
could do it. THAT is what we should do (or something like it, we're up to
three proposals now).
Squeak's IDE should present that it understands core competencies of
development, and LEAD users by not offering haphazard ways to do
configuration management, e.g., "Save as...". Ultimately it's a path to
nowhere, possibly even pain, and yet exacts a significant and mandatory
cost to the IDE's consistency, usability and scope.
Being able to work in the Smalltalk sandbox is why we're all here, and not
in a C# group. We should provide the tools that users deal with the
outside world like a boss.
Best,
Chris
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