My question has nothing to do with anyone's personal taste or interest. I was simply suggesting that Squeak take on slightly enhanced looks with each new release, rather than looking exactly like the old release.
I think the face-lifting brought some energy to the end of the 4.1 release, and people seem to be energized by new eye-candy..
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Igor Stasenko siguctua@gmail.com wrote:
This brings us back to the question:
- what if i want a different UI skin/theme , what i should do?
Lately i started own experiments in this way, where i try to separate look style from functional parts. The dilemma, is how make it convenient and non-intrusive. I think that the way how HTML/CSS doing it is fine.
On 21 April 2010 23:57, Michael Haupt mhaupt@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
now I really don't want to poleaxe you, but backgrounds textured like this make me really nervous. Literally, the first thing I did *immediately* after starting up the 4.1 image for the first time was to change the background.
Shouldn't progress be about, like, y'know, functionality, robustness, documentation (me talking), performance?
Yes. It *is* a matter of taste, partially. But you asked for opinions. I'm an engineer. GUIs I design would probably make you die of interface poisoning. :-P
Sorry,
Michael
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
What do folks think about each major Squeak release having slightly different appearance? It seems to have happened, perhaps "naturally," with every version since Squeak 2.9, at least. I think it's great for each release to have its own "personality".
A different background is a great place to start for keeping things fresh with new looks. Is 4.1 using a small tiled picture of some kind? Here is an alternative which I think looks kind of like rough construction paper. 12K though..
- Chris
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.