Fixing the look of squeak in 3.9.

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Jun 18 11:50:13 UTC 2005


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Stef

On 18 juin 05, at 13:42, Rudi Bichler wrote:

>
> 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.
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> 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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> >
> >
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