glamorous theme :)

> Hi,
>
> Over the past week I worked on a new theme for Pharo called the Glamorous Theme :). The theme is developed in the context of the Glamour project, and its goal is to create a look that:
> - does not look like a specific operating system. In particular, the icons should be operating system agnostic, because, for example, people in Windows are confused by the red, yellow, green buttons of apple.
> - uses a limited amount of colors and effects.
>
> It is still work in progress, but you can get the current version by executing:
>
> Gofer new
> squeaksource: 'Glamour';
> package: 'Glamour-Morphic-Theme';
> load.
> GLMUITheme defaultSettings: nil.
> GLMUITheme beCurrent.
> GLMUITheme setPreferredWorldBackground.
>
> Cheers,
> Doru
>
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> Hi Doru,
>
> Nice indeed, clean & professional, x-platform. I see that you  
> managed to get 'button with focus' (blue border) drawn correctly,  
> even though you subclass 'Watery2' which has round buttons, which  
> was a problem with the Pro theme. I tried to solve it, but I got  
> lost. Maybe you can see what is wrong there ? (see my mail aug 30).
>
> Regards,
>
> Sven
>
> On 04 Sep 2010, at 23:18, Tudor Girba wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Over the past week I worked on a new theme for Pharo called the  
>> Glamorous Theme :). The theme is developed in the context of the  
>> Glamour project, and its goal is to create a look that:
>> - does not look like a specific operating system. In particular,  
>> the icons should be operating system agnostic, because, for  
>> example, people in Windows are confused by the red, yellow, green  
>> buttons of apple.
>> - uses a limited amount of colors and effects.
>>
>> It is still work in progress, but you can get the current version  
>> by executing:
>>
>> Gofer new
>> squeaksource: 'Glamour';
>> package: 'Glamour-Morphic-Theme';
>> load.
>> GLMUITheme defaultSettings: nil.
>> GLMUITheme beCurrent.
>> GLMUITheme setPreferredWorldBackground.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Doru
>>
>> --
>> www.tudorgirba.com
>>
>> "Problem solving efficiency grows with the abstractness level of  
>> problem understanding."
>>
>>
>>
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> Hi,
>
> Over the past week I worked on a new theme for Pharo called the Glamorous Theme :). The theme is developed in the context of the Glamour project, and its goal is to create a look that:
> - does not look like a specific operating system. In particular, the icons should be operating system agnostic, because, for example, people in Windows are confused by the red, yellow, green buttons of apple.
> - uses a limited amount of colors and effects.
>
> It is still work in progress, but you can get the current version by executing:
>
> Gofer new
> squeaksource: 'Glamour';
> package: 'Glamour-Morphic-Theme';
> load.
> GLMUITheme defaultSettings: nil.
> GLMUITheme beCurrent.
> GLMUITheme setPreferredWorldBackground.
>
> Cheers,
> Doru
>
> --
> www.tudorgirba.com
>
> "Problem solving efficiency grows with the abstractness level of problem understanding."
>
>
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>
> On 05 Sep 2010, at 09:08, Tudor Girba wrote:
>
>> Hi Sven,
>>
>> I am not sure I understand what you are referring to. Could you be  
>> more explicit?
>
> Sorry: if you switch to the Pro theme (UIThemePro from the Polymorph-
> Themes-Pro package, PharoInbox) and do "UITheme  
> exampleBasicControls." you get the following window:
>
> <Screen shot 2010-09-05 at 09.28.50.png>
>
> The Default Button has an ugly blue border (well the blue border has  
> the wrong shape). Every dialog has this ugly button that's why it is  
> a pity because the Theme is otherwise quite nice.
>
> I really got lost trying to fix this (I lack knowledge of all this  
> drawing code). But you probably encountered similar problems.
>
>> The reason I chose square shapes is that as long as we do not have  
>> proper and fast antialiasing, it requires images (like in the  
>> watery2 theme) which are time consuming to produce, or it just does  
>> not look nice.
>
> Having a fast theme is also a definitive plus, sure.
>
>> Cheers,
>> Doru
>>
>> On 5 Sep 2010, at 08:23, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Doru,
>>>
>>> Nice indeed, clean & professional, x-platform. I see that you  
>>> managed to get 'button with focus' (blue border) drawn correctly,  
>>> even though you subclass 'Watery2' which has round buttons, which  
>>> was a problem with the Pro theme. I tried to solve it, but I got  
>>> lost. Maybe you can see what is wrong there ? (see my mail aug 30).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Sven
>>>
>>> On 04 Sep 2010, at 23:18, Tudor Girba wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Over the past week I worked on a new theme for Pharo called the  
>>>> Glamorous Theme :). The theme is developed in the context of the  
>>>> Glamour project, and its goal is to create a look that:
>>>> - does not look like a specific operating system. In particular,  
>>>> the icons should be operating system agnostic, because, for  
>>>> example, people in Windows are confused by the red, yellow, green  
>>>> buttons of apple.
>>>> - uses a limited amount of colors and effects.
>>>>
>>>> It is still work in progress, but you can get the current version  
>>>> by executing:
>>>>
>>>> Gofer new
>>>> squeaksource: 'Glamour';
>>>> package: 'Glamour-Morphic-Theme';
>>>> load.
>>>> GLMUITheme defaultSettings: nil.
>>>> GLMUITheme beCurrent.
>>>> GLMUITheme setPreferredWorldBackground.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Doru
>
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>
> On 05 Sep 2010, at 09:54, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>
>> screenshots PLEASE!
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/svc/Screenshots/Screenshot-20100905T111347.png
>
> Doru,
>
> I made the #baseSelectionColor almost black (I didn't like the blue,  
> de gustibus non est disputandum ;-) by overwriting it:
>
> baseSelectionColor
> ^ "Color r: 0.38 g: 0.64 b: 0.88" Color darkGray muchDarker

> Doru,
>
> I made the #baseSelectionColor almost black (I didn't like the blue, de gustibus non est disputandum ;-) by overwriting it:
>
> baseSelectionColor
>        ^ "Color r: 0.38 g: 0.64 b: 0.88" Color darkGray muchDarker
>
> I could subclass as well I guess, or you could make it into a variable with a setter, what do you think ?
>
> Anyway, very well done, it feels very fast, which was a goal I presume.
>
> Sven
>
> PS: the name is a nice pun too!
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> I like it.
>
> Screenshot: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/C8Psie5Q-msL2ZDAiIf3BQ?feat=directlink
>
> Laurent Laffont
>
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> http://magaloma.blogspot.com/
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[hidden email]> wrote:
> screenshots PLEASE!
> On Sep 4, 2010, at 11:18 PM, Tudor Girba wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Over the past week I worked on a new theme for Pharo called the Glamorous Theme :). The theme is developed in the context of the Glamour project, and its goal is to create a look that:
> > - does not look like a specific operating system. In particular, the icons should be operating system agnostic, because, for example, people in Windows are confused by the red, yellow, green buttons of apple.
> > - uses a limited amount of colors and effects.
> >
> > It is still work in progress, but you can get the current version by executing:
> >
> > Gofer new
> >       squeaksource: 'Glamour';
> >       package: 'Glamour-Morphic-Theme';
> >       load.
> > GLMUITheme defaultSettings: nil.
> > GLMUITheme beCurrent.
> > GLMUITheme setPreferredWorldBackground.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Doru
> >
> > --
> > www.tudorgirba.com
> >
> > "Problem solving efficiency grows with the abstractness level of problem understanding."
> >
> >
> >
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> On 05 Sep 2010, at 09:54, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>
>> screenshots PLEASE!
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/svc/Screenshots/Screenshot-20100905T111347.png
>
> Doru,
>
> I made the #baseSelectionColor almost black (I didn't like the blue, de gustibus non est disputandum ;-) by overwriting it:
>
> baseSelectionColor
> ^ "Color r: 0.38 g: 0.64 b: 0.88" Color darkGray muchDarker
>
> I could subclass as well I guess, or you could make it into a variable with a setter, what do you think ?
>
> Anyway, very well done, it feels very fast, which was a goal I presume.
>
> Sven
>
> PS: the name is a nice pun too!
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> Sven wrote:
>> Sorry: if you switch to the Pro theme
>
> The example basic controls shows the following issues:
> - Default button looks smaller because the blue
>  border is (imperfectly) written over the black outline.
> - Selected Disabled Button is unreadable. The contrast
>  between the gray text and the blue background is too low.
>  It could be improved by using outline style.
> - The gradient is blue is much stronger than that in black.
>  I would say the black needs more lights. The buttons
>  contrast too much with the light gray background.
> - The disabled checkbox misses a line at the top
> - Borders of button, checkbox and radiobutton should
>  look similarly sharp. Now the button looks sharp,
>  while the others look blurry. The same goes for
>  drop lists, normal lists and text editor.
> - Vertical spacing between the radiobuttons is inconsistent.
> - Text Entry looks like it has more height when disabled.
>  This is due to the top gradient of the non-disabled one.
> - Disabled slider handle is too dark.
> - Backgound color for Text Entry, Slider, List (s) and
>  Text editor should be the same for disabled state.
>  The same goes for disabled text foreground color.
>  Why has disabled drop list a different text color than
>  a disabled text entry?
> - Lists should have the same corner as text entry.
> - Drop list button has the V a-symmetrical.
> - Difference between normal list and disabled list
>  is too small.
> - The border between scroll bar buttons and light gray
>  background is not enough pronounced.
>
> Stephan
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> tx
> Doru don;t you want to put a bit of blue in the look instead of all  
> this grey.
>
> Stef
>
> On Sep 5, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
>
>>
>> On 05 Sep 2010, at 09:54, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>
>>> screenshots PLEASE!
>>
>> http://homepage.mac.com/svc/Screenshots/ 
>> Screenshot-20100905T111347.png
>>
>> Doru,
>>
>> I made the #baseSelectionColor almost black (I didn't like the  
>> blue, de gustibus non est disputandum ;-) by overwriting it:
>>
>> baseSelectionColor
>> ^ "Color r: 0.38 g: 0.64 b: 0.88" Color darkGray muchDarker
>>
>> I could subclass as well I guess, or you could make it into a  
>> variable with a setter, what do you think ?
>>
>> Anyway, very well done, it feels very fast, which was a goal I  
>> presume.
>>
>> Sven
>>
>> PS: the name is a nice pun too!
>> _______________________________________________
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> Cheers,
> Doru
>
> On 5 Sep 2010, at 08:23, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
>
>> Hi Doru,
>>
>> Nice indeed, clean & professional, x-platform. I see that you managed to
>> get 'button with focus' (blue border) drawn correctly, even though you
>> subclass 'Watery2' which has round buttons, which was a problem with the
>> Pro theme. I tried to solve it, but I got lost. Maybe you can see what is
>> wrong there ? (see my mail aug 30).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sven
>>
>> On 04 Sep 2010, at 23:18, Tudor Girba wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Over the past week I worked on a new theme for Pharo called the
>>> Glamorous Theme :). The theme is developed in the context of the Glamour
>>> project, and its goal is to create a look that:
>>> - does not look like a specific operating system. In particular, the
>>> icons should be operating system agnostic, because, for example, people
>>> in Windows are confused by the red, yellow, green buttons of apple.
>>> - uses a limited amount of colors and effects.
>>>
>>> It is still work in progress, but you can get the current version by
>>> executing:
>>>
>>> Gofer new
>>> squeaksource: 'Glamour';
>>> package: 'Glamour-Morphic-Theme';
>>> load.
>>> GLMUITheme defaultSettings: nil.
>>> GLMUITheme beCurrent.
>>> GLMUITheme setPreferredWorldBackground.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Doru

>>> http://homepage.mac.com/svc/Screenshots/Screenshot-20100905T111347.png
>>>
>> No round corners! kewl! :))
>
> I would prefer round corners.
>
> Alexandre
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