Fixing the look of squeak in 3.9.

Josh Gargus schwa at fastmail.us
Sat Jun 18 14:16:06 UTC 2005


On Jun 18, 2005, at 4:21 AM, Chris Schreiner wrote:

> This LookEnhancement; what a pleasant changeset :-)

I agree; it looks great.  Can anyone with a slow computer (Tim? :-) )  
comment on how fast it is compared to the regular look?

Josh


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> Stéphane Ducasse skrev:
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>> 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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