On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:30:15 -0500, "Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu>
said:
> I agree, Brad, that a better widget set and general UI tools would be
> nice, and I've argued in the past that we should put one into the
> standard basic image for people like you.
> 
> We actually have several widget sets on SqueakMap (have you tried
> BobsUI or Prefab?), and so I suggested that we should put the first one
> into the main image that someone would volunteer to actually maintain. 
> To prove they actually have some time available to maintain it, I think
> they should have some requirement, e.g. to make a Play With Me  project
> which introduces you to the toolkit.  I think we should tell them their
> toolkit will get put into basic (GUI's are part of basic development!),
> so that they will have incentive to do the work.
> 
> No one has really volunteered, but I still think it's a good idea.  For
> application developers using Squeak, it would be very valuable to not
> only have a great framework like Morphic, but to have a good set of
> widgets implemented in the framework.

Sounds like a fine idea to me.  To help make this "offer" more well
known, I've added it to the bottom of the GUI Building Tools page on the
swiki:

http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1576

- Doug