Fixing the look of squeak in 3.9.

Stéphane Ducasse stephane.ducasse at univ-savoie.fr
Fri Jun 17 11:01:15 UTC 2005


Hi all

I was at Lugano and I did yet another squeak demo to young  
programmers, they were impressed
but after they show me what they were doing in Java and ....I was  
impressed by the quality of the look
of their applications and I thought that if we do not do anything  
about look we should not say that we want to have more squeakers but  
keep playing between us. So does anybody wants that Squeak can talk  
with young programmer of 2000?

I would really like that Squeak out of the box look improves.
Here is what I suggest, we have different possibilities

     - (1) either load a skin package and use a nice skin
     - (2) load the LookEnhancement available at
     MCHttpRepository
     location: 'http://squeak.saltypickle.com/LookEnhancements'
     user: ''
     password: ''
     This package is doing a lot of overrides so we cannot load it  
simply in 3.9
     and it would be better to have it inside the image.
     - (3) speed the changes of diego

     - (4) Do a competition of the better look for squeak
         -- here the criteria should be that the system should be cool
         -- responsive
         -- as less intrusive as possible


Stef



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