Nice Looking Squeak IDE's?

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Fri Apr 27 09:32:15 UTC 2007


really cool.
I think that this is really important that we get some really cool  
fonts for Squeak by default.

Stef

> Hi Alan,
>
> This is the squeak look I like most, because I did it to suit my  
> taste! Take a look at http://www.jvuletich.org/issues/Issue0010.htm  
> that I have just uploaded. I managed to get antialiased subpixel  
> rendered fonts in Squeak without modifying any plugin, just with a  
> 13kb change set.
>
> And my morphic 3.0 image pictured there got down from 5mb to 3.6mb!
>
> I hope you like it.
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>
> Alan Kay escribió:
>> Thanks Juan --
>>
>> I like this one the best so far -- not so much for the antialiased  
>> fonts or subpixel rendering (though that is nice) but I like the  
>> flatter look gradient-use better than the more "dimensional" (as  
>> they would say at Disney) looks. The OLPC display has a kind of  
>> sub-pixel rendering built in (because one writes to the actual  
>> pixels not to the color blobs) and this could be taken advantage  
>> of even more (and probably will be as a version of Cairo is being  
>> worked on for the machine).
>>
>> Any more interesting Smalltalk methods in a browser with a look  
>> like this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> At 12:24 PM 4/21/2007, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>>> Hi Alan,
>>>
>>> I love the FreeType work by Andy Tween and Henrik Gendenryd:  
>>> http://www.zen61439.zen.co.uk/lcdOn.png .
>>> Please note that regular sub pixel rendering is not useful on the  
>>> OLPC machine, for the kind of display used.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Juan Vuletich
>>>
>>> Alan Kay escribió:
>>>> Hi Folks --
>>>>
>>>> I'm writing a document about Etoys on the OLPC machine and would  
>>>> like to include a page on Squeak (mentioning that it is lurking  
>>>> underneath Etoys, etc.).
>>>>
>>>> So I'm looking for really nice looking screenshots of the most  
>>>> esthetically pleasing "looks" that people have come up with for  
>>>> the general IDE, windowing system, etc. I think we should  
>>>> restrict it to looks that are currently in use and available.
>>>>
>>>> Can you give me some pointers?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Alan
>>>>
>>>>
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