[squeak-dev] Text editor menu simplified

Stephen Travis Pope stephen at heaveneverywhere.com
Wed Jan 25 02:09:06 UTC 2023


Does your keyboard not have a CTRL key?

:-)

stp

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> On Jan 24, 2023, at 4:09 PM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi 
> 
>> On 24. Jan 2023, at 21:28, Stephen Travis Pope <stephen at heaveneverywhere.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hello Squeakers,
>> 
>> At part 3 of my system simplification, here’s a version of the text editor (StringHolder) editing menu with fewer than 27 top-level items.
>> Here are before and after shots:
>> 
>> Before
>> 
>> <code-ed-menu-old.jpg>
>> 
>> After
>> 
>> <code-ed-menu.jpg>
>> 
>> 
>> The code is,
>> 
>> <StringHolder class-codePaneMenushifted.st>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The items from the old “more…” menu are in the “browse” and “other” sub-menus.
>> 
>> All of the usual keyboard accelerators and menu search keys work as before.
> 
> I just want to give a humble data point.
> I never use submenus on the text editor menu.
> 
> I user do/debug/print/explore/inspect it.
> Sometime button for it, seldom styling.
> I would greatly regret not having them on the toplevel.
> One submenu for do-it is one too much for me…
> 
> I'm not arguing against simplification, I do think however that some items need to be toplevel
> 
> Best regards
> 	-Tobias

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