… and this is why even small additions should not be included in frozen versions… you never know how it will impact others… and suddenly you have a full chain of changes with unpredictable impacts.
Esteban > On 6 Mar 2017, at 08:20, Aliaksei Syrel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > In order to make Sublimish theme possible there are some important changes to > gt morphic brick themer, spotter and probably other gt tools. Hardcoded color > and style values were already considered as a serious issue and a bug. > > Imho, we should integrate at least fixes on GT side :) > > Thanks, Phil! Great job :) > Alex > > On Mar 6, 2017 07:46, "Esteban Lorenzano" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> On 6 Mar 2017, at 07:17, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> First, let me be clear: I *like* sublimish theme (not for my use, but I like >> it), and I like (a lot) the windows list on spotter, and I like in general >> all this new additions. > > By the way, even if I like it, I would not have integrated SublimishTheme. > For same reason I didn’t integrated DarkMetalTheme: My idea is to have just > two themes *in image*: one white, one dark, and allow people to install other > themes from catalog. > > Why? Because each class inside image becomes our responsibility and then a > maintainability issue. With themes in particular already happened that > existing themes became abandonware inside the image and we needed to clean > up, not without problems. > > cheers, > Esteban > > ps: which means also yes: that issue got integrated because I failed to > control the flow of issues... > >> >> And I know, most of those additions are usability enhancements so a good >> thing. >> >> But can you guys stop pushing new features into a (in theory) frozen version? >> >> Pharo 7 will arrive soon… *if* we can fix all things missing. If I can >> suggest an orientation, it would be good, for those that use linux and mac >> (windows is not ready), to test and help fix 64bits version. >> >> There are still plenty of bugs to fix there, like for example why Spotter >> does not shows search line. >> >> Last week I added support to Athens and SDL2 in 64bits but that meant: >> >> - some important changes in UFFI >> - discover something that seems is failing on callbacks for Cairo (no idea >> if it is a callbacks problem or an image problem that causes a callback >> problem). >> >> I would say all this and the fact we are working on 64bits in general >> deserves a lot of testing. >> >> I will add links in Pharo page to download 64bits (I’m at the train now), >> but in the mean time you can download all from here: >> >> http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/pharo-64.zip >> <http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/pharo-64.zip> >> http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/pharo64-linux-latest.zip >> <http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/pharo64-linux-latest.zip> (linux) >> http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/pharo64-mac-latest.zip >> <http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/pharo64-mac-latest.zip> (mac) >> http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/sources.zip >> <http://files.pharo.org/get-files/60/sources.zip> (in case you need them) >> >> cheers, >> Esteban >
