tiny survey: who uses Pharo Launcher?
Hi, We want to know a bit more about Pharo Launcher, so please, answer this three points if you are using it: 1) which platform are you using? 2) is the experience satisfactory/easy enough? 3) do you have some feedback for us (bah, for Damien :P)? thanks, Esteban
Esteban, I use it a lot, in Mac OS X. One thing that I noticed is that even if you delete an image from the Launcher, the image stays in ~/Library/Preferences/Pharo/templateCache as a .zip file. If you download a lot of images then this directory grows considerable. Best Nacho *Lic. Ignacio Sniechowski, MBA* On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi, We want to know a bit more about Pharo Launcher, so please, answer this three points if you are using it:
1) which platform are you using? 2) is the experience satisfactory/easy enough? 3) do you have some feedback for us (bah, for Damien :P)?
thanks, Esteban
Hi Esteban, I use only Pharo Launcher for several months: 1/ ArchLinux, 64 bits 2/ Yes, great improvement in managing images 3/ Suggestions: - show created & last opened date for existing images. Option to sort by date or alphabetically - add a comment field for existing images so I could remember why I have this image - add a search field for templates & existing images - bookmark some templates (I often download Seaside or Phratch, tired to scroll down) - get the descriptions of the jenkins jobs to know what each template is about - notification that a new version of PharoLauncher is available - manage common preferences in PharoLauncher: - shared package-cache - prepare each new image with a set of Metacello configuration & preferences Laurent Le samedi 19 avril 2014, 14:32:18 Esteban Lorenzano a écrit :
Hi, We want to know a bit more about Pharo Launcher, so please, answer this three points if you are using it:
1) which platform are you using? 2) is the experience satisfactory/easy enough? 3) do you have some feedback for us (bah, for Damien :P)?
thanks, Esteban
2014-04-19 13:32 GMT+01:00 Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com>:
Hi, We want to know a bit more about Pharo Launcher, so please, answer this three points if you are using it:
1) which platform are you using?
Gentoo Linux 64-bit
2) is the experience satisfactory/easy enough?
Yes.
3) do you have some feedback for us (bah, for Damien :P)?
There are some things that could be improved, in my opinion, such as: - Location of the images Currently I have the launcher files on ~/launcher, and a symbolic link ~/launcher/images pointing to wherever the actual images are stored (I already forgot where). - Updating of the launcher image itself As far as I can tell there is no simple way to do it, but I may be using a too old version or something :) On the other hand there are some nice side-effects such as having to install additional files, like libsodium.so, in just one place and every image will be able to use them. As for the ubuntu package, I´m not using any of them. While I agree that having a package is good, even if it´s just for visibility, I prefer the increased flexibility of having this kind of things in a folder inside the home of whoever is going to use it (my home for development, /srv/pier for a pier installation, etc..). Cheers, Sergi
participants (4)
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Esteban Lorenzano -
Ignacio Sniechowski -
Laurent Laffont -
Sergi Reyner