On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 1:26 PM, Cédrick Béler <cdrick65@gmail.com> wrote:
Little feedback too.
I was surprised by the new download as some students had to install on windows⦠hopefully, I had old win versions but it has disturbed me :) Still handy and straightforward to just put an image on the VM.
Butâ¦this being said, I just tried on Mac and this works nicely and this is true that launcher makes the management of image clearer and easier.. I donât know about windows but I have to care about as 98% of students uses Pharo on windows...
I was thinking of some adjustments: 1) maybe a default/advanced mode on the launcher to show only, as default, Mooc/PBE5/Official distributions.
did you see that the Launcher already includes this? There is a Pharo Mooc item.
2) a proper icon name to display in OSâs task bars. When several image are opened, they should have different icons, at least different name when hovering, and not only Pharo.
The PharoLauncher should be named Pharo Launcher :). Now we should get a nice icon.
A more general feedback is about *cloud drive OSâs* (iCloud Drive, Dropbox, â¦). I have 3 macâs (pro and personal). I put often files in a directory that are synchronized across these devices. - sometimes I get a message that an image are in different states - sync image might be long (+changes) depending on network conditions
I think the question is important as the launcher download in the Document folder (OSX) and this directory is synchronized by default. What do you think about such common situation ? What are your common practices ? - lets says on two Macs and works on both - or I use a dropbox folder
=> cloud drive are cool and my impression is that we could take a better advantage of them for data that could be shared between (personal) images (Play-Cache ? Packages-cache ? ⦠) ==> would it be possible to have several files for one image (chunked over time so only the last chunk is modified and then less file would be synchronized) - (I donât know at all if possible) ? ==> same for changes⦠but this one should be easier I think.
=> I also find longer to share pharo system the old ways - zipping (or not) via USB - I think git integration produces a large number of files that relies slows down system copy paste (if only image this is ok)â¦
My 2 cents,
Cédrick
PS: my experiments to make students use Pharo are very cool⦠I need to adjust my presentations/lecture but already I think I succeeded in getting more attraction (and potential results) than what I tried last year with whatever technologies (Python especially). I still use AppInventor and Arduino.cc.
PS2: I just like what Sean said (but might be frightening at first for newcomers ^^) *Pharo all the way down *
But just in case we step into the quicksand even further, in this dystopian
future you can just copy paste this definition:
Pharo is a Pharo app that manages Pharo images, which can be used to make
Pharo apps, which can be used to manage Pharo images, [which can be used to
make Pharo apps, which can be used to manage Pharo images]*
Haha, yes it is so fluid it cannot be described only be experienced through prolonged exposure, it is truly magical.
Actually, that is not so far from the truth.
