[squeak-dev] looks evolution

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Apr 23 10:48:35 UTC 2010


On 23.04.2010, at 12:04, Tim Felgentreff wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 22:56 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: 
>> One oversight we had in 4.1 is that the buttons still have an ugly font - was that intentional?
>> 
>> - Bert -
> 
> I actually found that a regression. My buttons used to look fine pretty
> much up until the release.

You probably changed them in your image, but not the default. That still uses a fuzzy TTF instead of the pretty bitmap ones.

I suggested as much a month ago (see below) but since you were doing the "looks" I did not push my preference.

- Bert -

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> Date: 27. März 2010 13:03:25 MEZ
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] The Trunk: Morphic-ar.395.mcz
> 
> On 27.03.2010, at 12:15, tim at nada1.de wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Because some people asked for thinner window titles, you can set a smaller font using 'Preferences chooseWindowTitleFont'. I set it to Bitstream DejaVu Sans size 9 which should be available in all images.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Tim
> 
> "Bitmap DejaVu Sans" you mean, and bold I guess :)
> 
> But I agree, that's a better default. Button labels in particular should use the new bitmap fonts, too. Here's my preference:
> 
> Preferences class>>restoreDefaultFonts
> 	self setDefaultFonts: #(
> 		(setSystemFontTo:			'Bitmap DejaVu Sans'		9)
> 		(setListFontTo:				'Bitmap DejaVu Sans'		9)
> 		(setFlapsFontTo:			'Bitmap DejaVu Sans Bold'	12)
> 		(setEToysFontTo:			'Bitmap DejaVu Sans Bold'	12)
> 		(setPaintBoxButtonFontTo:	'Bitmap DejaVu Sans Bold'	12)
> 		(setMenuFontTo:			'Bitmap DejaVu Sans'		9)
> 		(setWindowTitleFontTo:		'Bitmap DejaVu Sans Bold'	12)
> 		(setBalloonHelpFontTo:		'Bitmap DejaVu Sans'		7)
> 		(setCodeFontTo:			'Bitmap DejaVu Sans'		9)
> 		(setButtonFontTo:			'Bitmap DejaVu Sans'		9)
> 	)
> 
> 
> To experiment there is also the World menu, "appearance ...", "system fonts".
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> 




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