Fixing the look of squeak in 3.9.

Chris Schreiner chris.schreiner at online.no
Sat Jun 18 09:21:42 UTC 2005


This LookEnhancement; what a pleasant changeset :-)

Stéphane Ducasse skrev:

> Hi all
>
> I was at Lugano and I did yet another squeak demo to young  
> programmers, they were impressed
> but after they show me what they were doing in Java and ....I was  
> impressed by the quality of the look
> of their applications and I thought that if we do not do anything  
> about look we should not say that we want to have more squeakers but  
> keep playing between us. So does anybody wants that Squeak can talk  
> with young programmer of 2000?
>
> I would really like that Squeak out of the box look improves.
> Here is what I suggest, we have different possibilities
>
>     - (1) either load a skin package and use a nice skin
>     - (2) load the LookEnhancement available at
>     MCHttpRepository
>     location: 'http://squeak.saltypickle.com/LookEnhancements'
>     user: ''
>     password: ''
>     This package is doing a lot of overrides so we cannot load it  
> simply in 3.9
>     and it would be better to have it inside the image.
>     - (3) speed the changes of diego
>
>     - (4) Do a competition of the better look for squeak
>         -- here the criteria should be that the system should be cool
>         -- responsive
>         -- as less intrusive as possible
>
>
> Stef
>
>
>
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