A couple of simple ergonomic adjustments

Mikael Kindborg mikael.kindborg at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 18:17:07 UTC 2007


Gary, that looks fantastic!

The different dialogs you have in this screenshot also look very solid:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=789144211&size=l

Are you a company developing apps in Squeak? Very nice work.

Best, Micke

2007/7/12, Gary Chambers <gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com>:
> And some not-so-simple ergonomic adjustments ;-)
>
> A piccy of my Squeak desktop along with one of our applications.
>
>  http://www.flickr.com/photos/65338133@N00/789894614/
>
> Nearly ready to release into the community as an add-on package (minus the
> report builder),
> though does modify (fix) quite a bit of morphic too.
>
> Uses the FreetypePlus package (good work Andy!).
>
> Supports a few different "themes", including one that looks more like
> "standard" squeak.
> Provides a nice UI for some standard (business application like) services,
> choosing colours, selecting a font etc.
> Also provides a framework for creating "standard" morphs (checkboxes,
> drop-lists etc).
>
> If there's any interest I'll speed up getting it ready for release.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Giovanni
> Corriga
> Sent: 09 July 2007 12:16 pm
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: A couple of simple ergonomic adjustments
>
>
> Il giorno lun, 09/07/2007 alle 11.25 +0200, Mikael Kindborg ha scritto:
> > Hi, those are nice changes. I also feel that a font like VeraSans
> > greatly improves the user experience. Looks much more
> > professional/fun/clear in my opinion. I speculate that people who try
> > out Squeak would be more positive to the system with better looking
> > default fonts.
>
> Even better, we could use the free and unencumbered Liberation fonts:
> https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/
>
> Here's a screenshot of one of my work images:
> http://www.corriga.net/~giovanni/Hacking.image.png
>
>         Giovanni
>
>
>
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