Stef, The first thing I notice in it is background colors, or is it just variation in backlighting on my monitor? Have we evolved to the point that background colors can be readily set? Last I looked into it, there was mention of a background style that I could never find.
Another thing is that a large fraction of the classes have icons associated with them. Dolphin makes that easy to do: just implement a class-side #icon, which I always did in terms of a rich set of class icons present in the base system, so I never had to mess with the details. It would be nice if it were that easy in Pharo; when well designed, such icons can aid perception. Since I constantly praise Dolphin, I will point out that D6's use of apples for most classes was not the best choice. It was visually grating and lead to a rather unprofessional look in a deployed executable where I had previously never given a second thought when the default icon was a dot. A rich (and expendable) set of clean icons for collections/composites, views, plugs/sockets, various metaphors that are easy to associate with one's own classes would be helpful. This might be similar to Dolphin's ability to apply multiple categories to a method: you won't miss it if you have never had access to it, but it is a *good* thing to have. Bill ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of stephane ducasse [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 2:17 PM To: Pharo Development Subject: [Pharo-project] this style looks cool http://www.anymorphic.com/softwareentwicklung.html Stef _______________________________________________ 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
