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Why are dropdown lists so chunky even in new Spec?

Tim Mackinnon
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Great work on bringing spec to life, and it looks quite slick in the new PharoLaucnher - but I don’t understand why in Pharo the dopdown lists (or ComboBox - name seems to vary) has always been so “chunky” and out of proportion? I was hoping that with Spec we would get something that looked more native and elegant but it seems like its not different? Why it this?

With it being so thick - its hard to line up with other controls and it leaves lots of white space when collapsed and expanded? I find it makes the toolbar of the launcher look a bit silly against the icons. See the photos. And a comparison against a native combo box (from system preferences in OSX). See how the native one is so much thinner? Aren’t we able to control this better?







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Re: Why are dropdown lists so chunky even in new Spec?

Tim Mackinnon
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Perhaps I should just log an issue for this? But is this a Launcher issue or a Spec2 one?

> On 19 Apr 2020, at 15:36, Tim Mackinnon <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Great work on bringing spec to life, and it looks quite slick in the new PharoLaucnher - but I don’t understand why in Pharo the dopdown lists (or ComboBox - name seems to vary) has always been so “chunky” and out of proportion? I was hoping that with Spec we would get something that looked more native and elegant but it seems like its not different? Why it this?
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> With it being so thick - its hard to line up with other controls and it leaves lots of white space when collapsed and expanded? I find it makes the toolbar of the launcher look a bit silly against the icons. See the photos. And a comparison against a native combo box (from system preferences in OSX). See how the native one is so much thinner? Aren’t we able to control this better?
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