I agree with both of you. I think what the Configuration Browser needs is a description pane that first of all gives information about the project and possible sources of documentaion and also has some advanced info for example its main repo, OS supported and Pharo versions supported. Obviously such pane could be made collapsable but on the other hand I find it very hard to believe that a new user wont need at least some basic info about the packages he tried to install. On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:
Hmm. It solves the problem I definitely don't have with the configuration browser. It is supposed to be helpful and provide simple and working configurations. That doesn't work as the configurations are not composable (loading magritte and then loading seaside misses magritte-seaside).
As a new user, I don't want to know about multiple locations for repositories. If I have to, I don't want them to take up half the size of the window, and simultaneously I don't want them hidden behind a context menu. Why not use a simple drop-down select for the five repositories? And don't use the full url as a selection name as that doesn't fit. Just add the full url on hover
Can we target the configuration browser please? So no possibility to add your own metarepo, just a tool that helps people getting started?
Stephan