Guys - in coming back to Smalltalk - the energy of Pharo and the improved look was something that really attracted me however as I keep finding moments to play with it, and I show other people what has been built - one of the big comments from newcomers is:
"Whats with the ugly buttons in the browser"? - this is in reference to the browse|hierarchy|variables... buttons in OB. I just happened to try a new Squeak 4.1 image on the weekend, and I noticed that their buttons are much nicer - they are smaller and neater than in Pharo. I had a look to see where they are created in Pharo- I think its OBFixedButtonPanel but I am not familiar enough with these internals to know how to fix it. I do know if you set the individual buttons to a #rigid style they shrink (but are too small) - so its something to do with setting the height of the container. I also wonder if its time to stop stretching buttons across the width of the browser - on a 27" iMac it looks strange when you zoom a window and get huge buttons. Whats wrong with left aligning the buttons and maybe having them all the same size? I also notice the that browser title bars are much taller than normal mac application title bars (and again in Squeak 4.1 they are smaller and match the native windows). I know these are small things - but they detract from the good work that is happening - and I want to show newcomers something that they find cool too. If someone can point me to where to look for these things, I would gladly fix and test them - but I'm stumped (and I'm sure they could be fixed in 2 minutes by someone knowledgeable). Tim _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
