[UI] Fwd: Workspace backgrounds - almost there

[Gary Chambers]

I could make the title button order available as a preference... For now
you'd need to subclass the UIThemeSoftSqueak and override
#configureWindowLabelAreaFor: with the version for Vistary.
Your new theme subclass will appear in the preferences (you should also
override #themeName on the class side).

As for the legibility of button text with Vistary, I find it alright when
using a FreeType font...

As for corner handles, they were a bugger to fix to work properly! I'd
prefer the old border/side behaviour with no handles as such. I could make
this an option if there's sufficient interest.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of 
> Bill Schwab
> Sent: 29 September 2007 3:23 pm
> To: ui at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [UI] Fwd: Workspace backgrounds - almost there
> 
> 
> I knew I missed a question in my global reply - the corner handles. 
> They do not particularly bother me (I almost like them 
> actually), but if they go away, I won't scream about it.  Now 
> that you mention it, you're right, they are ugly ;)
> 
> Gary, something I just noticed is that the soft squeak theme 
> leaves the [x] button on the left of the title bar.  I 
> _think_ I would move it to he right.  That said, I gladly 
> defer to you judgement.  BTW, I continue to be impressed with 
> your work.  For reasons unknown, I switched back to the 
> Vistary theme and noted that you obviously can move the close 
> button; at first, I assumed you simply didn't mess with the 
> locations. 
> I would use the Vistary theme, but I find the buttons 
> difficult to read due to the lens effect, or more to the 
> point, its location.  Of course, that is largely a result of 
> what you set out to emulate.  I can envision writing a hybrid 
> theme that has lens effects near rectangle bounds, but that can wait.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
> University of Florida
> Department of Anesthesiology
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> Email: bschwab at anest.ufl.edu
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> >>> asqueaker at gmail.com 09/27/07 10:10 PM >>>
> Looks real good Bill!  I especially like highlighting the 
> items in Lists the same as text highlighted in a text pane; a 
> big improvement over the red-on-gray list selections of past.
> 
> Do you have a mind to ditch the corner handles?  Aren't they 
> ugly? Not to mention redundant with the changing of the 
> mouse-pointer.  I've also noticed (in 3.9 images) they creep 
> out of their bounds under certain circumstances like too 
> small a window-title font, or maybe square window corners too..
> 
> 
> On 9/27/07, Bill Schwab <BSchwab at anest.ufl.edu> wrote:
> > This should do it:
> >
> >  http://needle.anest.ufl.edu/users/wschwab/UI-almost.png
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
> > University of Florida
> > Department of Anesthesiology
> > PO Box 100254
> > Gainesville, FL 32610-0254
> >
> > Email: bschwab at anest.ufl.edu
> > Tel: (352) 846-1285
> > FAX: (352) 392-7029
> >
> >
> > >>> Bill Schwab 9/25/2007 11:16:34 PM >>>
> > I did some fiddling to try to reproduce the installation problems I 
> > had, added a reminder about the Damien's dev image to the UI swiki
> page,
> > downloaded it, and did an installation of Gary's widgets using 
> > Monitcello.  Then I moved my BibTeX helper code into the 
> new image.  I 
> > appear to have made a happy mistake in the latter, 
> capturing a change 
> > that I considered redundant, and ended up with more or less 
> the visual 
> > changes I was trying to create, and grabbed a screenshot 
> before I had 
> > time to break it :)
> >
> > I will probably send it to Gary as a start.  What is the 
> proper way to 
> > make it available?  I suppose the easiest thing is to put 
> it on my web 
> > page, but I have not yet learned how to use Linux to remotely access
> our
> > servers, so I can't do that right now.
> >
> > When it becomes available, you will notice the background 
> color of the 
> > browser's and debugger's code pane.  I would hope for the 
> debugger's 
> > inspector panes to be so colored also, though they 
> currently show it 
> > only for the top line.  Ironically, the workspace in the 
> image is not 
> > correctly colored, though a newly-created instance has the correct 
> > color, though, as in the debugger's inspectors, it shows the color
> only
> > to a point, after which the default white takes over.
> >
> > Again, this is not a super big deal, but I find that 
> similar changes 
> > that OA made to Dolphin long ago grew on me.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
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