[UI] UI (was RE: A couple of simple ergonomic adjustments onsqueak-dev)

[Bill Schwab]

Hello all,

Sorry, I was a little slow to notice the discussion moved - thanks for
getting this going!


Gary,

I am also eager to try your changes.  Themes, tabbing, dialog framework,
more widgets - if it is at all what I am imagining, Squeak has needed
this for a long time.  I think I follow you on "for end-user deployment
the package can be loaded then if you prefer the standard development
environment."  I will very likely load the changes and never look back,
but I am concerned about synchronizing with future changes to Squeak.  I
hope that we can get your work folded into the mainstream, or is the
plan to lead by example?  Another way to say that would be, do you plan
to ultimately fork Squeak, or will you continue to adapt to each
release?

Clearly you recognize the larger community might have reservations about
the feel changes.
Are your feel changes themed or otherwise pluggable?  Could they be made
so?  That might give us a better chance of reaching wide acceptance.

Failing that, Pavel's work might provide an opportunity to build a clean
system from the ground up, which might be even better??

Thanks!!

Bill





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