Am 02.12.2004 um 15:01 schrieb John Pierce:

>>  I've spend some time trying to figure out whether I could use Squeak 
>> for my
>> Introductory IT course for biology-students, but what have scared me 
>> away
>> from that is that Squeak is so completely "strange" to use for windows
>> users. This plus the fact that everything can be changed or deleted 
>> would
>> take focus away from the real issues in the course...
>
> I'm not sure where the new Diego L&F is these days.  The last I saw of
> it was the Squeak 3.8a unstable stream.  In Squeak 3.8b from the ftp
> site, it doesn't come pre-installed.  Anyways, I was able to find a
> relatively new screen shot of his L&F here at:
> http://tinyurl.com/4jy3r .
>

It's in 3.9alpha.

> I don't think the new look and feel tries to emulate the windows look
> and feel though -- but it is much more pleasant to use than the
> standard style.
>

Emulating windows isn't the way to go: That would look strange on my 
mac ;-)
But a better gui, and especially a good way of providign alternative 
skins is
badly needed.

     Marcus