[squeak-dev] facelifting the trunk?

Ronald Spengler ron.spengler at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 03:52:30 UTC 2009


Let's make it look better than it does now, and then turn toward
discussing a skinnable architecture.

Andreas: does Tweak lend itself to skinning in less ones and zeroes
than Polymorph does?

Juan: Does Morphic 3 lend itself to skinning in less ones and zeroes
than Polymorph does?

On Thursday, September 17, 2009, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/18 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>
>>> On 17.09.2009, at 13:45, Göran Krampe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> (presuming some coloring scheme for different tools is still in effect -
>>>> I don't want *everything* to be grey)
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>> Unfortunately, the Newspeak facelift is obviously designed as a plainly
>> colored theme with the only color sprinkled in carefully by the window
>> buttons and the "dirty marker". There is no good way to mix and match colors
>> so if you don't like the fact that it's gray then don't use it.
>>
> No need to defend or prove something. UI is always about personal
> preference & taste.
> Almost in all situations in life, when you making some people happier,
> at the same time
> you making some other people unhappy, no matter how good you try.
> IMO to judge if we doing things right is to make the number of happier
> people significantly
> more than those who will become unhappy due to our actions.
> And i think facelifting is right thing, even if someone wouldn't like
> it at all :)
>
>> FWIW, I'm attaching what I consider the "final" version of Botox (meaning I
>> won't spend any more time on it). No screenshots because I really want
>> people to try it in action instead of judging from a single screenshot.
>> Hint: It's worth trying it as it looks significantly different from the
>> previous version for a particular reason which I find critical to really
>> judging the look.
>>
>> I recommend loading it into a trunk image, firing up a browser, looking at
>> some implementors and then opening the test runner. This should give you a
>> pretty good feel for what it's like.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  - Andreas
>>
>>
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>>
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> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
>

-- 
Ron



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