[squeak-dev] Re: [ANN] Widget Refactorings & UI Themes for Squeak

Chris Cunningham cunningham.cb at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 17:27:10 UTC 2016


Oh, and I should mention that I do like this.  The theme selection is
nice/reasonable to use and was easy to understand.

and the look - I really like that.
-cbc

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Chris Cunningham <cunningham.cb at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 7:49 AM, marcel.taeumel <Marcel.Taeumel at hpi.de>
> wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> Thanks for this elaborate report. :-)
>
>
> You're welcome.  I'm in the UI most every day, for several hours.  Looks
> matter to me.
>
> I notice that the selection lists have changed somewhat - either in this
> package or in the trunk recently (not sure which).  I think I like the new
> selections - but will take some time to get used to them.
>
>>
>> "Changing themes works - mostly.  It appears to just change the thematic
>> elements that are visible at the time of theme changing.  What is mean is,
>> if you have a window minimized, then the contents of that window will not
>> change to the new theme, but will stay with the old theme (at least, the
>> colors do).  This may not be an issue for folks with a reasonably small
>> number of windows open, of course."
>>
>> There is a filter in Morph >> #canApplyUserInterfaceTheme, which checks
>> "self isInWorld". For collapsed window contents (text boxes etc.), that
>> returns false.
>>
>> One could experiment with removing that check for a while.
>
>
> I'm thinking I'll need to do this.  Some of the older themes plus
> highlighting in the newest produce startling results - old dark theme in
> new dark theme = blinding white selections.
>
> We think that we
>> might not want to change prototypical content or left-overs... Hmm... I
>> think we can fix this for Pluggable* widgets very easy by checking
>> #containingWindow.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Best,
>> Marcel
>>
>>
>>
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