Some enhancements in the inspector for browsing "pointers to" objects

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Pharo is a dynamic reflective pure object-oriented language supporting live programming inspired by Smalltalk.

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Some enhancements in the inspector for browsing "pointers to" objects #17104

Open labordep opened 1 month ago

labordep commented 1 month ago

Hello!

Some enhancements about inspector capacities to browse objects "pointers to":

The icon for using debugger (break and watch) is the same icon that the "Browse pointers to" action, this is very confusing.
I would like to have "pointers to" action directly in the menu bar, because this is very usefull!
This is shame to don't have same ergonomic contextual menu on the right view (when an object is on a collection) and on the left view (when an object is isolated) :

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Version information:

OS: Windows 10 Pro
Pharo-12.0.0+SNAPSHOT.build.1527

StevenCostiou commented 1 month ago

For the icon confusion, I propose this new one for the object-centric commands. We would keep the original one with three colors for the pointers to command. Capture d’écran 2024-09-20 à 10 28 51

labordep commented 1 month ago

For the icon confusion, I propose this new one for the object-centric commands. We would keep the original one with three colors for the pointers to command.

Thanks @StevenCostiou. Just an ergonomic rule: to have same icon but with different colors is not suffisant for all users. A lot of people cannot see all colors variations (for example daltonism) and to be more inclusive each icon need to have a different shape. So the potential icon for "browsing pointers" need to have a different shape that this one.