Seem very very promising! It's wearing a vista style rigth? That can be
changed somehow? I ask because vista is not as minimalist as it can be for
the good of us all. Microsoft never showed respect for basic design
principles yesterday's and today's.

I'm full of curiosity about your news,

	cheers!

Sebastian Sastre

  

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] En 
> nombre de Gary Chambers
> Enviado el: Jueves, 12 de Julio de 2007 14:53
> Para: 'The general-purpose Squeak developers list'
> Asunto: RE: A couple of simple ergonomic adjustments
> 
> 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
> 
> 
>