I read the blog post and I liked it. Thank you Koen! I've also liked very much the discussion in this thread. I hope that you guys would expand your ideas and give talks at the ESUG conference next July.
FYI here is the page with the ESUG call for presentations https://esug.github.io/2024-Conference/call2024.html Noury ;-) On Mar 11 2024, at 4:27 pm, Aik-Siong Koh <as...@askoh.com> wrote: > Atlas is indeed ambitious, and I am glad you want to push the boundaries. > > Over the decades, GUIs have introduced a bewildering array of widgets and > designs that I think we are in a mess again. > I feel we should restart again with a blank window, allow select and > rightclick for context menu, and proceed for there to introduce the base > minimum for a functional GUI. > I believe "select and rightclick context menu" can solve almost every GUI > need simply. > I also think the single column menu can be updated to a two-column menu which > is more compact and balanced. > The cursor can be centered between the two columns instead of being at the > top left corner. > The cursor has to travel less for any selection. > https://askoh.com/index.html#TwoColumnMenu > > All the best, > Aik-Siong Koh > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:58:40 +0000, "Tim Mackinnon" <tim@testit.works> wrote: > > As browsers are a passion in the Smalltalk world it will be great to read > your thoughts - as its certainly a hot potato, and we don't seem to have > quite cracked it so far. > > I recall the presentations on Calypso from Pharo days (might have been > recorded for review if you haven't seen them). I recall being won over at the > time (and I was hesitant) - there was lots of flexibility that had been > thought about, and many useful and tricky browsing patterns were covered - > but over time I think its proved tricky to work with. In Pharo 11, the > browsers don't seem to work as well as they should (lots of funny focus > issues and loss of context that I don't recall in previous version - which I > think is more down to understanding how it was supposed to work than > technical flaws). > > It's definitely worth generating conversation and getting some consensus > otherwise it will be a rise and fall scenario all over again. This said, > continuing to find a good model that is both flexible and simple is useful. > > Tim > > p.s. On thing I recall from those Calypso presentations was that the model > should have let us design browsers where we have different navigation models > (e.g. you in theory you could design something where a class has a path to > methods which are both instance and class so you don't have to have a mode to > swap between them - something I find distracting when designing the interface > of a class and trying to figure out how you instantiate/initialize it and you > want to jump between the 2 view - I just want to see all all the methods in a > list, differentiated in some way vs. hiding them). > > On Sun, 10 Mar 2024, at 5:24 PM, Koen De Hondt wrote: > > Dear Pharo users and developers, > > > > Some people already know that I am working on a browser for Pharo. With > > this announcement, I make it official 😀. > > In my latest blog post > > (https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/6), I introduce Atlas as > > an ambitious successor of Calypso. It is the first post in a series. > > > > Happy reading! > > > > Ciao, > > Koen > > > > > >
