Chris Muller wrote:
>>What I would love is to have another color than the pale green one  
>>for the browser.
>>May be having a simpler color scheme would help unifying the look. I  
>>liked blue/orange
> 
> 
> May we not hard-code any more colors though, please?  Everyone has different
> preferences on colors, and no system I know today offers the user full
> flexibility on color-schemes, but they should.
> 
> The work I did with "inverteBright" took us a step closer to elimination of
> several hard-coded colors by instead asking Preferences.  Unfortunately, I
> received not one feedback in two attempts to ask about inverteBright.  Not even
> an aesthetic comment about the screenshot
> 
>   http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5729
> 
> which shows how nice it is to use the #textHighlightColor as the color for list
> and menu selections too.  It's quite nice that anything "selected" by the user
> indicates its selection with a consistent color.
>


I like what you did with #textHighlightColor. The standard red 
foreground color in list items is absolutely not ergonomic (on white or 
a brighter gray background). The simple negating of menu items for 
selection is distracting, too. Having black letters with the selected 
#textHighLightColor is a big advance!

One thing I noticed after loading LookEnhancements-cmm.2.mcz into 6690 
is that some buttons of the filelist appear now dark gray, so dark that 
you can't read their text anymore. For checking what I mean select this 
very file.

Here is a general note to the LookEnhancements:

Menu or label gradients that become at the dark side too dark are the 
opposite of ergonomic, because:

- the text on them is not readable anymore
- every flashing on screen with big differences of brightness, like 
selecting another window and having the first one becoming dark, is 
distracting.

I suspect that this must look different on different monitors or monitor 
adjustments, because I have seen unbelievable dark ends of gradients in 
Squeak images. So dark that you immediately ask yourself if others are 
so blind that they do not see that there is nothing to see anymore.

So my suggestion is to dampen all gradient effects.

And back to your Enhancements-enhancements:

The killer flasher of Squeak is the Morph>>flash which flashes the 
programmers brain every time he saves twice. Red is better than black, 
but only a color slightly darker than the text pane could be called 
ergonomic.

Regards,
Martin