Am 15.10.2013 um 12:18 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]>:

> 
> On 15 Oct 2013, at 08:30, Pavel Krivanek <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> the issue that sets the new Pharo 3.0 look&feel uses a monospaced font
>> for the code. It is only a coincidence that it is not set this way in
>> the prebuild Pharo image.
>> 
>> I have big doubts if this is the way to go. I think that proportional
>> fonts are more natural for Smalltalk and without them the code is
>> harder to read and not so beauty. I think that something like elastic
>> tabstops would be much better solution.
>> http://tibleiz.net/code-browser/elastic-tabstops.html
> 
> Yeah, I can't imagine many Smalltalkers liking a mono-spaced font, I 
> personally hate it.
> 
+1

>> On the other way, it is only my personal opinion and if you think that
>> the Eclipse-like look will attract more new users...
> 
> I don't like Eclipse ;-) But like Marcus says, it is just a different icon 
> set. We want win any points on originality or personality though, which is a 
> missed opportunity.

Norbert

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