+1 Very good point. I agree on all of them. Is it possible to choose any ttf font and make a NiceFont out of it? I don't know the real name but the package on universe is called this way.
Or do you think we should make the trutetype plugin mandatory? Norbert On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 11:22 +0200, Adrian Lienhard wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to get your opinion about how we could improve the GUI. I > believe that even a few small changes will make a significant > difference, especially for new people that come to Pharo. Just the > cleaned up world menu is such a relief... > > Here a three suggestions: > > Better fonts > ---------------- > I think the current code font is not a good one and it is too small > (for today's screen resolutions). I like for example the font used in > TextMate, which is Monaco 12, a monotype font. The page > http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ > gives some samples for good code fonts. I've tried out the other > fonts in the Pharo image like the BitstreamVeraSansMono but they are > all very blurry. Just not good enough. I'm not a font expert, so I > don't know what the options for a better font are. > > Better menus > ------------------------------- > Current problems: > - bad organization menus only work when you have learned where > something is located > - duplicated entries e.g., Appearance is both in the top level world > menu and in the submenu Help > - useless entries e.g., set font, set style etc. in the context > menu > are useless since code is never styled > - defective entries: e.g., "Make project link" in the context menu > does not work > > Larger windows > ------------------------------- > The default size of windows is usually too small. Often, after opening > a window I have to resize it. For example the hierarchy browser shows > only the 5 first classes. > > > Any other ideas what could be improved in the short term? I'm looking > for stuff that we can do now without having to rewrite the whole > system... > > Cheers, > Adrian > > ___________________ > http://www.adrian-lienhard.ch/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
