some feedback on Nautilus: 1. Having "Class/Instance" in one button is bad since the label can mean two things: "Im on the class/instance side" (state like) "Click here to go to class/instance side" (action like) After a while one knows it is the latter but this is really confusing anytime I come back to it. Especially since all Smalltalks I've used in the past have a clear and better distinction. Displaying the state on the title of the window is not enough. Possible solution: - reintroduce the two buttons (if layout space is a problem use "Instance" "?" "Class" where ? points to comment - use Tabs as in Dolphins browser http://www.stevewaring.net/blog/images/ssosxCHB.jpg - use a real toggle button which is not only changed but have a pressed "Instance" or non-pressed "Class" state - use two Radio Buttons as in VisualWorks http://linuxgazette.net/issue51/gx/steffler/classBrowser03.jpg 2. I like the hierarchy view ... and the double click "navigate to" functionality that is similar to VisuaWork. But still the inheritance tree view is not collapsible which is the most missing feature. You may ask why do we need that. Here is an example: navigate to class "StandardWindow" in Pharo 2.0 and click on "Hierarchy" to have a class hierarchy browser. Now you want to learn more about the direct subclasses of "StandardWindow" - hard to do in Nautilus: You will see class DialogWindow as the first subclass if SystemWindow - since the hierarchy of DialogWindow itself is very deep you can not see and easily navigate to the second subclass of SystemWindow which is "FontChooseMorph". It is hard to scroll down and since the tree has not lines it is also hard to follow indentation. With a collapsible tree you could collapse the "DialogWindow" subtree and would see - SystemWindow -- DialogWindow (collapsed) -- FontChooserMorph -- NautilusWindow Attached is a screenshot to show how easy it would be displayed with a collapsible browser (I used the SmalltalkMT class hierarchy browser to mock it) 3. The casing in the menue items is totally inconsistent. Here an example: "Find Method..." "Add class..." Nonetheless I like Nautilus a lot - thanks for it! Great tool Bye T. -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de
