[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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> stp
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> Stephen Travis Pope Ojai, California, USA
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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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