Vote now! (was Re: straw-man 3.2 default preferences)

Gary Fisher gafisher at sprynet.com
Fri Apr 19 09:23:38 UTC 2002


Color is one of the most basic and intuitive of all visual cues, perhaps
second only to shape.  Removing something so basic and useful would rate at
least an amber, probably a red light.  Keep the colors!

Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: <goran.hultgren at bluefish.se>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 5:06 AM
Subject: Vote now! (was Re: straw-man 3.2 default preferences)


> "Stephan B. Wessels" <swessels at one.net> wrote:
> > On 4/18/02 11:16 PM, "Jon Hylands" <jon at huv.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:37:24 -0700, Scott Wallace
> > > <scott.wallace at squeakland.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Would you also put these inboard scrollbars on the *right*, on
> > >> similar grounds of familiarity?
> > >
> > > Well, I certainly would (and do).
> > >
> > > I think you should also seriously consider setting the windows to all
> > > white, or at least all the same (light pastel) color.
> >
> > I'd vote for the pastel settings by default.
>
> I like the colors! "Go colors, go colors!".
>
> Don't let all these gray-stripe-Windows-users drag us down to the boring
> bottomless pit of white backgrounds! :-) Who knows, the next thing they
> may come up with is removing the mouse logo! Stop this nonsense right
> NOW:
>
> Make your voice heard at <a
> href="http://anakin.bluefish.se:8080/squeakdot">SqueakDot</a> (There is
> a poll up!)
>
> Vote for multiple colors! Vote now!
>
> regards, Göran
>




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