Fernando wrote:

I would like to hear your opinion on the benefits of such interfaces, besides the fact that mainstream IDE's adopted it, it's not that i don't like Eclipse , is more that i'm aware that several difficulties have been found with these type of interfaces.

On a large screen, I find the current Pharo layout already very much superior to Eclipse, Visual Studio and Delphi. Tabs provide not enough context, a card-based layout can do better. Please don't refer to inaccessible material (a.o. acm, ieee, springer, elsevier) unnecessarily.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1062492

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ajko/papers/Ko2005MaintenanceTasks.pdf

[2] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1806866

http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~jjl/pubs/ICSE0289.pdf

[3]http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1810295.1810331&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=8516...

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/121031/CodeCanvas-ICSE10-NIER.pdf

[4]http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6070389

http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~rrobbes/p/VLHCC2011-gaucho.pdf Stephan