[Cuis-dev] changeset. Improvement on #askForSaveOnQuit

[Nicola Mingotti]

Hi Luciano

On 8/18/21 11:32 AM, Luciano Notarfrancesco wrote:
> Yes, I guess my point is that the menu should call a method that does 
> something simple and UI related (like ask whatever questions) and then 
> call ‘Smalltalk quit’.
Umm, but then, consider, also when I do Installed Packages -> Save, it 
is disruptive, the system could
ask me "Are you sure?". That would be annoying.

> I think whatever we can do with menues should be also available in 
> this “command line” or “doIt” sort of fashion, so once we know the 
> system we can use it without menues or unnecessary user interaction, 
> and also from scripts.
Oh yes, i am a big fan of this ! From what i was able to see digging 
into the menus it is often
easy to find the equivalent Workspace command that perform the same 
action as GUI.

bye
Nicola



> Currently it is possible to do it but it involves sending a long 
> message with like 4 arguments, I think, not easy to remember or type.
>
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 at 3:31 PM Nicola Mingotti <nmingotti at gmail.com 
> <mailto:nmingotti at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hi Luciano,
>
>     i guess the point of the talk is about making a feature available
>     to others ;)
>
>     Of course, in our system we can set up whatever we wish. In my system
>     I load a fileout at boot, at the moment, to make it behave as I wish.
>
>     But I need something more solid and transportable than a file, since
>     I work on several computers. Therefore, if the feature does not
>     get into the Core
>     I will make a package out of it (not immediately).
>
>     Anyway, I am happy to see there is somebody else who does not like
>     to be asked "Are you sure? / Is it safe?" ;) It reminds me the
>     movie "Marathon man".
>
>     bye
>     Nicola
>
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>     On 8/18/21 9:52 AM, Luciano Notarfrancesco wrote:
>>     I didn’t like the questions either, but it was not a big deal, I
>>     just implemented #quit, #save and #saveAndQuit in
>>     SystemDictionary and I just do ‘Smalltalk quit’ for example.
>
>     ---- cut old -----
>

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