[UI] UI Enhancements

[Gary Chambers]

Aye... will have a go. The Flaps may be annoying though (font changes tend
to reset them)...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Travis Kay
> Sent: 01 November 2007 6:42 AM
> To: Squeak's User Interface
> Subject: Re: [UI] UI Enhancements
>
>
> Gary,
>
> Here is some of my feedback on the Watery theme:
>
> 1) Tree icons look better by changing the theme to use StandardSqueak,
> but could be made to look more like Aqua
> 2) Radio and Checkbox controls are a little too dark when checked, for
> me they don't appear to blend well with the rest of the theme
> 3) TaskListMorph - icons in the TaskbarMorph are very bright with
> shadows through the horizontal center, it makes the labels very hard to
> read.
>
> Other comments in general:
>
> 1) Having theme enabled TaskbarMorphs would be nice, I tend to use
> images for desktop backgrounds and make the taskbar transparent - it
> looks better to me and gives more visible screen space when not a lot of
> windows are minimized (I run on an X61 Thinkpad).
>
> 2) Having theme enabled Flaps would be nice, I tend to customize these
> too, making them solidTab and transparent or very translucent with pop
> out on drag.
>
> I think these two changes could have a large impact on the overall look
> of existing themes and more to come. On the feel side of things, I have
> some hacks around using 'sticky' menus so they wont attach to the hand -
> but its more of a hack. Oh, theme enabled menus would be excellent, but
> there is lots of refactoring to be done in this area and it isn't very
> trivial.
>
> All in all, awesome work Gary.
>
> Travis
>
> Gary Chambers wrote:
> > Given a "standard" canned response from Flickr for my upload
> problems I've
> > hit my webspace directly. Forgotten how painful "command-line"
> ftp is (not
> > needed a usefult ftp client for a while).
> >
> > Piccy of the "Watery" theme here:
> > http://www.gazzaguru2.btinternet.co.uk/Watery.png
> >
> >
> > ...
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