[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Morphic-mt.1624.mcz

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 21:17:45 UTC 2020


Mostly greebleless UI that Tim might be refering to:

[image: Capture d’écran 2020-02-17 à 22.12.17.png]
Maybe the gray level obtained by dithering is a little bit too fancy ;)

Le lun. 17 févr. 2020 à 22:00, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> I never really look at the icons. Except the check box that is functional
> I see the icons as a visual noise that make the menus and UI look more
> interesting visually :-P
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble
>
> Best,
> Karl
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 8:05 PM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > On 2020-02-17, at 10:59 AM, Thiede, Christoph <
>> Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hm, it would be also nice if the menu items could implement
>> #applyUserInterfaceTheme properly ...
>> >
>> > <pastedImage.png>
>> >
>> > By the way: The indent of labels next to symbols is hard-coded and not
>> the same for icons and markers (see MenuItemMorph >> drawLabelOn:). We
>> currently don't have any mechanism for centering all icons horizontally and
>> all labels to the left, do we?
>>
>> Do people actually like having icons stuck in their menus? It never
>> seemed like much of a good idea to me; so many menu entries have no
>> reasonable iconic representation, the size of the icons really needs to be
>> carefully constrained in order to not make a messy visual (look at what the
>> inspect/explore lines do in your image), very few icons are well designed,
>> it can drastically slow down menu rendering... really not something I like.
>>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> Strange OpCodes: EROS: Erase Read-Only Storage
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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