[squeak-dev] Text editor menu simplified

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Wed Jan 25 06:05:32 UTC 2023


Hi


> On 25. Jan 2023, at 03:09, Stephen Travis Pope <stephen at heaveneverywhere.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Does your keyboard not have a CTRL key?


It has many more.
That does not preclude that situations exist where I cannot or do not want to use keyboard shortcuts :)
Especially when I do "small step debugging", I read out loud what I'm doing and made it a habit to only
use the menu in this case.


Best regards
	-Tobias

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> :-)
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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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