straw-man 3.2 default preferences
Scott Wallace
scott.wallace at squeakland.org
Sun Apr 21 10:28:55 UTC 2002
Anyone wishing to take a crack at creating and sharing an improved
palette of window colors (for which the community would be ever so
grateful) can open a window-color panel (world-menu... appearance...
window colors) and adjust any or all of the colors (click on a swatch
to get a picker that lets you change it.)
When done, evaluate the following expression (choose your own filename):
(ReferenceStream fileNamed: 'betterWindowColors') nextPut:
(Preferences parameterAt: #windowColors); close
... and then email out the resulting file, named "betterWindowColors"
or whatever name you chose.
This will make it easy for everyone to try out your prospective scheme
-- Scott
PS: The companion do-it for slurping such a file into an image and
thereby adopting the window-color scheme it represents would be
something a little more complicated:
| aStream |
aStream _ ReferenceStream oldFileNamed: 'betterWindowColors'.
specs _ aStream next.
aStream close.
Preferences installWindowColorsVia:
[:aWindowSpec | specs at: aWindowSpec classSymbol].
At 7:18 AM +0200 4/19/02, Martin Drautzburg wrote:
>Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> writes:
>
>> On Thursday 18 April 2002 09:35 pm, I wrote:
>>
>> > As far as the colors go, I could see using the pastel colors too.
>>
>> Or not. I guess I've gotten used to the candy-colored "bright" colors
>> that come stock with Squeak.
>
>The window colors, bright or pastel just don't look right.
>
>Having different window colors may not be a problem per se, but it is
>difficult to chose the colors in way so it does not look like an
>accident.
>
>It might look better if there were fewer different colors and we play
>more with saturation and brightness to distinguish the windows. But I
>am not a designer.
>
>The pastel colors look like an half hearted attempt to solve the
>problem of the bright colors.
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