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
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>> 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?
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>> I would really like that Squeak out of the box look improves.
>> Here is what I suggest, we have different possibilities
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>> - (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
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>> - (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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