Hi there

I'm new to Smalltalk and especially to Squeak and I think this let's me
see things more objective. I heard about Smalltalk for about 2 Years and
made my first steps with VisualWorks building some Applications with the
UI-Painter. In the last 2 Months I tried out Squeak and was amazed about
it. But I (and all other's I talked about it) missed a powerfull tool
for building a GUI. It would be great for Squeak to provide such a tool
and I'm sure many people would take a look at Squeak today, instead of
Java tomorrow. Below I listed some features I'd love to use for my
development. For now I will use VisualWorks for my Applications and
Squeak for 'playing'. But I would switch to Squeak immediatly if ...

- a modern look for widgets, something like KDE or Win XP
  [a good look sells ;-)]
  [support for themes would be great]
- Support for Drag and Drop to 'draw' a Application like the VW 
  UI-Painter has
- all the std. widgets like:
  ~ Buttons
  ~ Lists
  ~ Tables
  ~ Pull Down Menus
  ~ Kontext Menus
  ~ Scroll Bars / Wheel Widgets
  ~ Icons
  ~ endless Inputfields
  ~ Notebooks (I think VW called it so, but I don't know if it's the
    correct name)
  ~ ...
- easy to add Short-Cuts
- easy to add Balloon-Texts
- ...

I know about BobsUI, Prefab and SguiKit but that's not what a Newbie
looks for. There should be a common Concept build upon Morphic, easy to
extend and easy to implement Theme Support. I know ... that's a lot of
work, but it would help Squeak, getting more Users and Developers. I'm
to unexperienced in Morphic to start it, but I will help where I can.

Regards
Chris Burkert