Convincing a harvester (was on SqF list)
Daniel Vainsencher
danielv at netvision.net.il
Tue May 6 10:06:36 UTC 2003
Maybe we should somehow see user comments on SM packages directly in the
SMLoader UI.
This is the clearest explanation I've seen of what the packages actually
does.
Daniel
Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
> I think it does makes Squeak prettier/nicer for nearly all audiences.
> :-) For myself, it lets me easily use nice-looking antialiased fonts
> in browsers and all other windows, simply by going to the
> appearance/fonts menu. Loading new TrueType fonts is pretty easy, too.
> This is all done in the image (without relying on any
> platform-specific primitives), and only adds one new class to the image
> (along with changing a bunch of methods :-) ). Basically, in this case
> I think the benefit-cost ratio is quite high.
>
> - Doug Way
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