Damien, The pieces for themes are certainly present. Maybe we can excavate to find a Win98 SE box that still runs and take some notes. IIRC, there is a skin manager/loader for Squeak, and some of the skins it loaded were fairly tame. Depending on licensing, a simple member of that collection might be a good choice to copy to create a theme?? I am not suggesting that we ditch Polymorph, only that we might plagiarize some icons for a theme.
I threw my speed comment out because Gary _did_ ask, and it is hard to tell how much of the hit is in Polymorph and how much is in OB. One older Pharo image that I use has some quirks that could be fixed by making some morphs ignore mouse interactions. It is probably my problem in this case, but I wonder how much of the IDE's lack of snappiness lurks in drawing more than is needed. Sig probably went a long way toward isolating that today. It's not really bad, I just think it should be quicker than it is. It is also true that I care a lot more about the speed available to my end users than I do about my IDE - at least to a point. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bsch...@anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 >>> damien.pol...@gmail.com 02/08/09 8:52 AM >>> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 17:58, Bill Schwab <bsch...@anest.ufl.edu> wrote: > I suppose I could suggest replacing some of the button bars with more compact > iconic toolbars. Things like debugging over, into, etc. lend themselves well > to that. The world menu will not make much sense if we ever get one window > per shell. it was probably already said, but could the other buttons in the browser use the squarish buttons from the task bar rather than the current rounded ones that waste a bit of space ? > The biggest concern I have right now is speed. I'm not saying Pharo is too > slow; I'm simply admitting that I do not know whether it is fast enough for > some of the things I want to do. Agreed. Actually I'm wondering if a very sleek minimalistic theme would be nice* flat colors, simple lines, very limited complicated stuff like gradients or shaders* provided the typography, widget spacing, and color choices are done with taste, I think it can look quite nice, and would even be more usable than a more flashy theme. -- Damien Pollet type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
