[Pharo-project] Questions, Ideas, suggestions?
First of all I have to say that I really like the idea behind Pharo - especially the "Pharo wants to help people invent the future" one! I managed to find where to lodge issues but where should one submit questions, ideas and/or suggestions? I am not a bit fan of mailing lists so I was wondering if the mailing list will be available from Nabble? Since Google Code is used why not simply use Google Groups? The Pharo image already has a lot of UI improvements over the default Squeak image but I still think that the default (and only) font is an ugly font. The font in Ramon's customized Pharo image is a little better but his font is too big. Since the windowing looks like a Mac why not use a nice font too? Anyway, a nice default font would be nice.
First of all I have to say that I really like the idea behind Pharo - especially the "Pharo wants to help people invent the future" one! I managed to find where to lodge issues but where should one submit questions, ideas and/or suggestions?
I am not a bit fan of mailing lists so I was wondering if the mailing list will be available from Nabble? Since Google Code is used why not simply use Google Groups?
The Pharo image already has a lot of UI improvements over the default Squeak image but I still think that the default (and only) font is an ugly font. The font in Ramon's customized Pharo image is a little better but his font is too big. Since the windowing looks like a Mac why not use a nice font too? Anyway, a nice default font would be nice.
Set the fonts to whatever you like, I prefer a larger font so I do this... Preferences setDefaultFonts: #( (setSystemFontTo: 'Accuny' 14) (setListFontTo: 'Accuny' 14) (setMenuFontTo: 'Accuny' 14) (setWindowTitleFontTo: 'Accuny' 14) (setBalloonHelpFontTo: 'Accuny' 14) (setCodeFontTo: 'Accuny' 14) (setButtonFontTo: 'Accuny' 14) ). If you want them smaller, make them smaller, and keep your own short build script so you can quickly customize a new image to your liking loading all the packages you like and setting all the preferences the way you want them. Ramon Leon http://onsmalltalk.com
Hi Geert, On Feb 2, 2009, at 02:50 , Geert Claes wrote:
First of all I have to say that I really like the idea behind Pharo - especially the "Pharo wants to help people invent the future" one! I managed to find where to lodge issues but where should one submit questions, ideas and/or suggestions?
This is the right place.
I am not a bit fan of mailing lists so I was wondering if the mailing list will be available from Nabble? Since Google Code is used why not simply use Google Groups?
There is http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.pharo.devel which allows you do read the mailing list as an RSS feed.
The Pharo image already has a lot of UI improvements over the default Squeak image but I still think that the default (and only) font is an ugly font. The font in Ramon's customized Pharo image is a little better but his font is too big. Since the windowing looks like a Mac why not use a nice font too? Anyway, a nice default font would be nice.
Absolutely. There will be a good set of default fonts in version 1.0. Its on the todo list. Please also note that you can use other fonts than the one Ramon suggests in another mail. We have FreeType integrated so you have access to all your nice subpixel AA fonts (select: world menu->System->Preferences->System fonts)! Cheers, Adrian
First of all I have to say that I really like the idea behind Pharo - especially the "Pharo wants to help people invent the future" one! I managed to find where to lodge issues but where should one submit questions, ideas and/or suggestions?
This mailing list is probably the most appropriate.
I am not a bit fan of mailing lists so I was wondering if the mailing list will be available from Nabble? Since Google Code is used why not simply use Google Groups?
We did not push the reflection very far actually. We had the infrastructure for mailing lists, and a lot of people who will read this email use intensively mailing lists.
The Pharo image already has a lot of UI improvements over the default Squeak image but I still think that the default (and only) font is an ugly font. The font in Ramon's customized Pharo image is a little better but his font is too big. Since the windowing looks like a Mac why not use a nice font too? Anyway, a nice default font would be nice.
The British crew is doing a tremendous work. They know what the words "beauty" and "elegance" mean and using their definitions makes me happy. I am sure there are aware of the remaining deficiency of the Pharo UI. Thanks for your comments, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
On Feb 2, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Geert Claes wrote:
First of all I have to say that I really like the idea behind Pharo - especially the "Pharo wants to help people invent the future" one!
In particular I would love to get a reinvention of Smalltalk :) But first let us clean and fix.
I managed to find where to lodge issues but where should one submit questions, ideas and/or suggestions?
The point is the following when you submit a but send an email so that people see it. Without discussion it may happen that your changes gets unnoticed and worse not discussed. For idea se this list and we appreciate ideas but ideas with code are better :)
I am not a bit fan of mailing lists so I was wondering if the mailing list will be available from Nabble?
It is.
Since Google Code is used why not simply use Google Groups?
Because.
The Pharo image already has a lot of UI improvements over the default Squeak image but I still think that the default (and only) font is an ugly font. The font in Ramon's customized Pharo image is a little better but his font is too big. Since the windowing looks like a Mac why not use a nice font too? Anyway, a nice default font would be nice.
Check the freetype fonts release, the final 1.0 will use these fonts or others but cool. stef
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Adrian Lienhard -
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Geert Claes -
Ramon Leon -
Stéphane Ducasse