Ronald Spengler wrote:
> Let's make it look better than it does now, and then turn toward
> discussing a skinnable architecture.
> 
> Andreas: does Tweak lend itself to skinning in less ones and zeroes
> than Polymorph does?

No. Tweak actually utterly fails at that. I have a new UI framework that 
I'm working on occasionally and which I actually used to implemented 
Facelift first - the name Botox only occurred to me when I then started 
to poke in all of these dark corners of Morphic to get it to look the 
way I wanted ;-)

Polymorph is actually not a bad choice for skinning as far as a 
Morphic-like environment goes but it needs work to detach the basic 
skinning infrastructure from the actual looks and extra widgets. There 
are simply too many dependencies right now.

If anyone wants to move this forward, here is how I would do it:
* Load Polymorph into a trunk image.
* Remove *all* UIThemes outside of the most basic standard Squeak one
* Remove all the unused classes
* Minimize the dependencies to the "extra" widgets that Polymorph has 
but where simper stand-ins do just fine
* Repackage the result and push it into Morphic

I suspect (but that's a guess) that the end result is less than a dozen 
additional classes and fewer than a hundred extra methods which I would 
find perfectly acceptable for the skinning infrastructure. On top of 
which additional themes could be loaded. But it's real work that needs 
real time to be invested in it.

Cheers,
  - Andreas