[squeak-dev] Facelift in trunk (and more)

> Folks -
>
> After the positive feedback about Facelift and Botox I've taken the liberty
> to add those changes to the trunk and consequently bring them down upon you
> ;-) The idea here is that you can try them and form an informed opinion. The
> main question that you should ask yourself is whether you feel that the
> updated look is an improvement over the previous look. Personally, I'm
> answering this question with a resounding "Yes!"; I think we've greatly
> improved the out of the box experience.
>
> The work is by no means finished. We do need better colors for the windows;
> they don't work too well right now. We also need better performance, the
> look is *very* slow right now (but fixing that is easy; I just need to find
> a spare minute). Help on any or all of these issues is greatly welcome.
>
> As a consequence of the need for a custom background (the blue gradient
> doesn't work at all with the Facelift look), I've also started the first
> round of project refactoring, which makes Project an abstract class and
> splits MVCProject and MorphicProject so that the base system only needs to
> know about projects abstractly, and the concrete project types are bound to
> the UI environment they belong to (meaning that unloading MVC will rid us of
> any traces of MVC in Project). That had been on my list for a while already
> and I finally got a start on it. Help is welcome here, too, in particular in
> the areas of moving the responsibilities around into the proper subclasses
> and fixing those #isMorphic calls by vectoring them through Project current
> instead (see DisplayScreen>>restore for an example).
>
> All in all, I think that this is reason enough to put an updated image onto
> squeak.org. You can download it (with all updates as of today) as:
>
>  http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak3.10.2-Trunk-090919.zip
>
> It has all the changes applied and also a small window listing recent
> additions to the trunk image. It's getting quite a collection!
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>

> I just clicked the 'update button'
> it looks a little better :)
> except the button pane in browser, which draws buttons with rounded
> corners even if i turn off the
> rounding option in prefs.
> Its also looks a bit strange, with artifacts, because instead of
> rounding it draws an ugly gray curves :(
> But anyways, thanks for an effort :)
>
> 2009/9/19 Andreas Raab <[hidden email]>:
>> Folks -
>>
>> After the positive feedback about Facelift and Botox I've taken the liberty
>> to add those changes to the trunk and consequently bring them down upon you
>> ;-) The idea here is that you can try them and form an informed opinion. The
>> main question that you should ask yourself is whether you feel that the
>> updated look is an improvement over the previous look. Personally, I'm
>> answering this question with a resounding "Yes!"; I think we've greatly
>> improved the out of the box experience.
>>
>> The work is by no means finished. We do need better colors for the windows;
>> they don't work too well right now. We also need better performance, the
>> look is *very* slow right now (but fixing that is easy; I just need to find
>> a spare minute). Help on any or all of these issues is greatly welcome.
>>
>> As a consequence of the need for a custom background (the blue gradient
>> doesn't work at all with the Facelift look), I've also started the first
>> round of project refactoring, which makes Project an abstract class and
>> splits MVCProject and MorphicProject so that the base system only needs to
>> know about projects abstractly, and the concrete project types are bound to
>> the UI environment they belong to (meaning that unloading MVC will rid us of
>> any traces of MVC in Project). That had been on my list for a while already
>> and I finally got a start on it. Help is welcome here, too, in particular in
>> the areas of moving the responsibilities around into the proper subclasses
>> and fixing those #isMorphic calls by vectoring them through Project current
>> instead (see DisplayScreen>>restore for an example).
>>
>> All in all, I think that this is reason enough to put an updated image onto
>> squeak.org. You can download it (with all updates as of today) as:
>>
>>  http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak3.10.2-Trunk-090919.zip
>>
>> It has all the changes applied and also a small window listing recent
>> additions to the trunk image. It's getting quite a collection!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  - Andreas
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
>

> Folks -
>
> After the positive feedback about Facelift and Botox I've taken the  
> liberty to add those changes to the trunk and consequently bring  
> them down upon you ;-) The idea here is that you can try them and  
> form an informed opinion. The main question that you should ask  
> yourself is whether you feel that the updated look is an improvement  
> over the previous look. Personally, I'm answering this question with  
> a resounding "Yes!"; I think we've greatly improved the out of the  
> box experience.
>
> The work is by no means finished. We do need better colors for the  
> windows; they don't work too well right now. We also need better  
> performance, the look is *very* slow right now (but fixing that is  
> easy; I just need to find a spare minute). Help on any or all of  
> these issues is greatly welcome.
>
> As a consequence of the need for a custom background (the blue  
> gradient doesn't work at all with the Facelift look), I've also  
> started the first round of project refactoring, which makes Project  
> an abstract class and splits MVCProject and MorphicProject so that  
> the base system only needs to know about projects abstractly, and  
> the concrete project types are bound to the UI environment they  
> belong to (meaning that unloading MVC will rid us of any traces of  
> MVC in Project). That had been on my list for a while already and I  
> finally got a start on it. Help is welcome here, too, in particular  
> in the areas of moving the responsibilities around into the proper  
> subclasses and fixing those #isMorphic calls by vectoring them  
> through Project current instead (see DisplayScreen>>restore for an  
> example).
>
> All in all, I think that this is reason enough to put an updated  
> image onto squeak.org. You can download it (with all updates as of  
> today) as:
>
>  http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak3.10.2-Trunk-090919.zip
>
> It has all the changes applied and also a small window listing  
> recent additions to the trunk image. It's getting quite a collection!

> One thing that I'd want to change is the scrollbar looks. I think  
> they would look much lighter if the borders of scrollbar buttons and  
> of the slider would overlap when the elements are adjacent, and if  
> they would merge with the scroll pane's border.
>
> Currently, it looks like this:
> <PluggableListMorphPlus.jpeg>
>
> I'd prefer this:
> <PluggableListMorphPlus2.jpeg>

> On 19.09.2009, at 11:23, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
>
>> One thing that I'd want to change is the scrollbar looks. I think they
>> would look much lighter if the borders of scrollbar buttons and of the
>> slider would overlap when the elements are adjacent, and if they would
>> merge with the scroll pane's border.
>>
>> Currently, it looks like this:
>> <PluggableListMorphPlus.jpeg>
>>
>> I'd prefer this:
>> <PluggableListMorphPlus2.jpeg>
>
> It's a tiny thing that makes a big improvement IMHO :)