[racket-dev] Revision to the Language Dialog

Ouch. It satisfies the "gui design laws" so it passes this test. 
For an 'old timer' it doesn't truly work. Let's wait and see. 

-- Matthias




On Nov 6, 2012, at 8:17 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> Okay, I've push something to try to deal with this.
> 
> Robby
> 
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> OH! I now get the confusion. Clicking on the teaching languages is the
>> way one interacts with that part of the dialog but the #lang lines are
>> just text and users of this thing will be completely confused by
>> non-parallelism.
>> 
>> Duh!
>> 
>> Hm.
>> 
>> Robby
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> +1
>>> 
>>> Thank you for the experiment. I am coming to two conclusions:
>>> -- I think we're closer to getting it right
>>> -- I am beginning to think we dont' ever wish to abolish it.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Nov 6, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Asumu Takikawa wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2012-11-06 14:03:50 -0600, Robby Findler wrote:
>>>>> The "docs" links are meant to all be clickable (and I can certainly
>>>>> underline them). What were you expecting, exactly?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I prefer not to make clicking on the "#lang .." part edit the
>>>>> definitions window; I think copy and paste is probably clearer to the
>>>>> user.
>>>> 
>>>> I didn't actually expect the '#lang ...' to change anything, but I could
>>>> imagine thinking that it did and being confused. Similarly, it might not
>>>> be obvious that the teaching languages are clickable without some visual
>>>> distinction.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Asumu
>>> 

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