Nice Looking Squeak IDE's?

Alan Kay alan.kay at squeakland.org
Fri Apr 27 12:02:48 UTC 2007


Hi Juan --

I like it also. It's nice and clean and simple and pretty. Nice stuff!

Cheers,

Alan

At 04:48 PM 4/26/2007, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>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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