Plus the System Browser is green with a green cursor :-(

I looked for a while where to change the default colors, fonts and window
sizes. Can anyone help?

Daniel Klein
Portland OR  USA

-----Original Message-----
From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Martin
Wirblat
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 1:34 PM
To: Squeak
Subject: 3.2 gamma handoff


My first impression: the fonts are way too small.

The official image with welcome files etc is an advertise. It tries to
catch eyeballs and to generate interest. For good reason ads are using
big fonts. Someone new to squeak is forced to read lengthy readme files
written in an absolutely distracting font.

Will the newbie be encouraged to do so?

Squeak is marketing itself definetely not well this way.

Lets assume the newbie gives it nonetheless a try and wants to find out
ie how to make fonts bigger, how to change the look and feel (-: how to
start programming. What happens next? Newbie opens up window after
window and soon he realizes:

YOU CAN'T SWITCH BETWEEN WINDOWS!

The only way for him to do so, will be closing or dragging all windows
which are hiding what he is looking for right now.

There is no windows taskbar.

At least on a german pc keyboard the ctrl/cmd-$\ does not cycle through
the windows and even if newbie finds out about 'find window' and if $\
would work, the windows handling were much too inconvenient to compete
with Windows, KDE and the like. This holds true especially, because
Squeak likes to spawn windows instead of reusing open browsers -
compare it to the Dolphin browser or VisualSmalltalk with its viewzoom.

Especially a newcomer is drawning in windows, because he has not
internalized the classhierarchy and all the other info an oldtime
squeaker knows.

Newbie might think: They invented the window engine 30 years ago and
now they forgot the steering wheel?

Sad, but at this point the journey into squeakland ends.

I know it is too late for a change in 3.2 but this is the single most
disappointing item which let me try 2.6, 2.8 and 3.0 each for about 10
minutes before forgetting about Squeak for the next long timespan. It
was only Microsoft with its increasing impudence which let my try
harder this time.

Martin