[squeak-dev] Facelift in trunk (and more)
Giuseppe Luigi Punzi Ruiz
glpunzi at lordzealon.com
Sat Sep 19 08:44:57 UTC 2009
El 19/09/2009, a las 8:17, Andreas Raab escribió:
> Folks -
>
> After the positive feedback about Facelift and Botox I've taken the
> liberty to add those changes to the trunk and consequently bring
> them down upon you ;-) The idea here is that you can try them and
> form an informed opinion. The main question that you should ask
> yourself is whether you feel that the updated look is an improvement
> over the previous look. Personally, I'm answering this question with
> a resounding "Yes!"; I think we've greatly improved the out of the
> box experience.
>
> The work is by no means finished. We do need better colors for the
> windows; they don't work too well right now. We also need better
> performance, the look is *very* slow right now (but fixing that is
> easy; I just need to find a spare minute). Help on any or all of
> these issues is greatly welcome.
>
> As a consequence of the need for a custom background (the blue
> gradient doesn't work at all with the Facelift look), I've also
> started the first round of project refactoring, which makes Project
> an abstract class and splits MVCProject and MorphicProject so that
> the base system only needs to know about projects abstractly, and
> the concrete project types are bound to the UI environment they
> belong to (meaning that unloading MVC will rid us of any traces of
> MVC in Project). That had been on my list for a while already and I
> finally got a start on it. Help is welcome here, too, in particular
> in the areas of moving the responsibilities around into the proper
> subclasses and fixing those #isMorphic calls by vectoring them
> through Project current instead (see DisplayScreen>>restore for an
> example).
>
> All in all, I think that this is reason enough to put an updated
> image onto squeak.org. You can download it (with all updates as of
> today) as:
>
> http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak3.10.2-Trunk-090919.zip
>
> It has all the changes applied and also a small window listing
> recent additions to the trunk image. It's getting quite a collection!
I like it. A nice set of icons (close, minimize, expand), and flaps,
is enough to give fresh air until a skinning system is developed.
Giuseppe Luigi Punzi Ruiz
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