On 19 Aug 2015, at 11:50, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:

On 19 Aug 2015, at 11:44, Thierry Goubier <thierry.goubier@gmail.com> wrote:

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�� but arriving to it is not so easy.

In conclusion: We are doing some right steps. It is not finished, but we are not going to go back to older way :)

Hi Esteban,

My opinion is that you're still tied a lot to the Smalltalk 80's way... Which is good: someone coming from 1980 would be able to use Nautilus ;)

My critics on that design: the tabs are nice and certainly help see that a class has a class side. Overall look is more up to date. Tabs headers, scroll bars, etc... take far too much space: work area (the code area) is 39% of overall window size, and 68% counting in the context (package, class, protocol and method) (Numbers are worse on a small window, of course, but I guess some do work on small screens).

It will be nice to see simpler / cleaner Nautilus code coming along :)

yes, of course you are right :)
the GTools guys are working in a complete replacement, and I��m sure it will be a lot better�� but we will always need a backdoor�� and I would like to have a good browser even as a backdoor.
(also, our philosophy is incremental: we improve what we have while we wait for the break-thru improvements)

Esteban

ps: for me the ��code area�� is not equivalent to the ��work area��: I spend much more time understanding a problem than coding it, and for that a view of the method *in the context* is better)

for example: I try your alt browser time to time, because I find it has some good ideas.

But since my workflow is usually: I dig a package, then I see the classes inside and try to figure out how they work together, then I read the comments, try to find examples, tests�� then I finally go to the method level, and even that often with an eye into the class it belongs and even the package�� so the AltBrowser is useless for me�� it is really not confortable for me to use�� and yes, it has a bigger code area, but that is not really relevant (for me).

�� and the traditional browser adapts a lot better to that way of doing.

Now�� real question is: I work that way because fits better my mind-model or my mind-model fits what the browser provides me? well, who knows�� but back in my java days I also was using the ��java browsing perspective�� of Eclipse, who resembles a Smalltalk browser.

Esteban

Thierry