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Improve Author Name window for beginners #171

Closed jecisc closed 5 years ago

jecisc commented 5 years ago

Migrated case from Manuscript.

Original case: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/19919 Status: Work Needed Project: Usability Original Author: CyrilFerlicot Date: 5 April 2017 10:37:54 am

Description:

One think I often see when new people discover pharo is that they are really frustrated by the Author Name window.

One time it's fine. Two time, ok. When they have to enter it for the 10th time it is annoying.

Maybe the Author Name window could have a box "Save it as a setting" and when he press ok this setting is set and exported.

It will still be annoying when the image will be launched with the --no-default-preferences option but at least it will make things better for beginners.

jecisc commented 5 years ago

Reply: Author: Sven Van Caekenberghe Date: 5 April 2017 11:06:11 am

Message:

AFAIK it already works like that: you only have to enter the author name once and it is automagically remembered (in that image, provided you save).

Same goes for username/password authentication for repositories: remembered once entered.

Are you sure this does not work for you ?

jecisc commented 5 years ago

Reply: Author: CyrilFerlicot Date: 5 April 2017 11:19:21 am

Message:

The goal is to have it for all images of the computer.

jecisc commented 5 years ago

Reply: Author: Henrik Nergaard Date: 9 April 2017 6:19:49 pm

Message:

The problem with having it global is the same as with the global "org.pharo.something" created in %appdata% (on windows), who cleans this up afterwards? Another problem is that having something global might cause problems when some images do not support what is global, or there is some error in reading it causing at worst the image to not start correctly. 

I think a better to solution is to then use the Pharo lanucher when you want some "global setup" when starting different images.

jecisc commented 5 years ago

Reply: Author: CyrilFerlicot Date: 9 April 2017 6:23:35 pm

Message:

The fact is that this system already exist. There is an exportable setting for this. I just propose to add the possibility to export this setting directly in the author name window. The java IDE I use there is things like that. They have checkboxes for options like this in all there popup windows.

jecisc commented 5 years ago

Reply: Author: Henrik Nergaard Date: 9 April 2017 6:30 pm

Message:

as long as it is saved in "./pharo-local" and not in some global place like %appdata%, sure why not.

jecisc commented 5 years ago

Reply: Author: CyrilFerlicot Date: 9 April 2017 6:32:17 pm

Message:

All settings are exported in AppData/Roaming/Pharo

This is like this since many Pharo versions.

jecisc commented 5 years ago

Reply: Author: Pavel Krivanek Date: 1 October 2018 7:48:41 am

Message:

Not for Pharo 7. Since now Author initials are not really needed because of Git, we should think about the removal of this functionality or just set it to $HOME name during image start-up