The Trunk: Morphic-ar.459.mcz

Andreas Raab uploaded a new version of Morphic to project The Trunk:
http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Morphic-ar.459.mcz

==================== Summary ====================

Name: Morphic-ar.459
Author: ar
Time: 6 August 2010, 11:50:36.075 pm
UUID: 1eebbccf-ebff-1c41-8a15-d022e86eb716
Ancestors: Morphic-ar.458

Experimental. Fold the former 'open...' world menu directly into the menu bar as 'Apps' menu. This way, any registered apps are directly accessible via the menu bar. The menu bar needs a bit of cleanup (there are some dupes right now) but it's an experiment to see if people like the idea. You need to go to Extras>>Rebuild Menus to see the effect.

=============== Diff against Morphic-ar.458 ===============

Item was added:
+ ----- Method: TheWorldMainDockingBar>>listAppsOn: (in category 'submenu - apps') -----
+ listAppsOn: menu
+ "Update the apps list in the menu"
+
+ | args |
+ TheWorldMenu registeredOpenCommands do:[:spec|
+ args := spec second.
+ menu addItem: [ :item |
+ item
+ contents: spec first translated;
+ target: args first;
+ selector: args second].
+ ].
+ !

Item was added:
+ ----- Method: TheWorldMainDockingBar>>appsMenuOn: (in category 'submenu - apps') -----
+ appsMenuOn: aDockingBar
+ "Create a menu with the registered apps"
+
+ aDockingBar addItem: [ :item |
+ item
+ contents: 'Apps' translated;
+ subMenuUpdater: self
+ selector: #listAppsOn: ]
+ !

Item was changed:
  ----- Method: TheWorldMainDockingBar>>menusOn: (in category 'construction') -----
  menusOn: aDockingBar
 
  self
  squeakMenuOn: aDockingBar;
  projectsMenuOn: aDockingBar;
  toolsMenuOn: aDockingBar;
+ appsMenuOn: aDockingBar;
  extrasMenuOn: aDockingBar;
  windowsMenuOn: aDockingBar;
  helpMenuOn: aDockingBar.
  aDockingBar addSpacer.
  self
  searchBarOn: aDockingBar;
  clockOn: aDockingBar!

Just a small ping - noone having an opinion on this change? Thumbs up,
down, +1, -1 are all welcome.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

On 8/7/2010 6:51 AM, [hidden email] wrote:

On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Just a small ping - noone having an opinion on this change? Thumbs up, down,
> +1, -1 are all welcome.

I like the idea, but it would be a lot better with the new menu
registration. Unfortunately that project seems to be stalled.


Levente

On 2010-08-07, at 2:21 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Just a small ping - noone having an opinion on this change? Thumbs up, down, +1, -1 are all welcome.

Sounds good, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet.

Colin

+1
I like it also because it re-uses existing registration mechanisms...

Bye
Enrico

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 23:21, Andreas Raab <[hidden email]> wrote:


--
Enrico Spinielli
"Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"— Philip K. Dick
"Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."—Mitchel Resnick

I like it well enough, but I don't see a meaningful distinction
between a "Tool" and an "App". Everything under the "App" menu
might just as easily be listed under the existing "Tools" menu,
the only issue then being that we may possibly have too many entries
under that existing menu.

It does seem that with Monticello, SqueakMap, Universes, ConfigBrowser,
and PackageList we have a set of related tools for finding and
loading packages. Possibly these could be organized under a separate
menu along side of "Tools".

Dave


On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 02:21:43PM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote: