Fixing the look of squeak in 3.9.

Rudi Bichler chaoshierophant at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 18 11:42:15 UTC 2005


 
Yep. I totally agree. Simply coloring oll the text and list panes in the tools to white is already an incredible improvement and - I think - very easy to realize.
 
 


Chris Schreiner <chris.schreiner at online.no> wrote: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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