September 2025 - Pharo-users

[ANN] Pharo Consortium New Academic Member: EMIT University of Fianarantsoa
by Marcus Denker Sept. 12, 2025

Sept. 12, 2025

The Pharo Consortium is very happy to announce that EMIT University of Fianarantsoa has joined the Consortium as an Academic Member. About - EMIT University of Fianarantsoa: https://www.emit.mg <https://www.emit.mg/> - Pharo Consortium: http://consortium.pharo.org <http://consortium.pharo.org/> Individuals can support Pharo via the Pharo Association https://association.pharo.org <https://association.pharo.org/>

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A couple of newb questions
by Will Senn Sept. 8, 2025

Sept. 8, 2025

Hi all, I'm brand new to pharo. I'm hoping y'all can help with a couple of beginner questions... 1) I'm running on debian 13 trixie. With Pharo 12, 13 or 14, the fonts are very tiny on my 2560x1440 display. What's the best way to make menus and text bigger. I tried a scale factor, but it looks ugly. If that's the recommended solution, fine. I can live with it, but I want to do it the right way. 2) The open url functions don't work. I get XPCOMGlueLoad errors: XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozgtk.so: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: hb_ot_color_has_paint Couldn't load XPCOM It seems like this is an incompatible library issue. Is there a way to set another browser (I'm using Firefox) as the one pharo uses? I have several including opera and chrome. Thanks, Will

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Pharo News of the Week 36/2025
by Marcus Denker Sept. 5, 2025

Sept. 5, 2025

# Pharo News of the Week 36/2025 [Wanted] Pharo News. If you want to add your news to this list, use this form: https://tinyurl.com/4c89buy4 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Pharo 13 - [Backport] Improve folder selection in the File Browser #1232 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1232 # Fixes - Fixes #18482 Cannot push up a class var. #18504 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18504 - Allow to set tabs priority in Iceberg #18499 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18499 - Fixing ThemeIcons #18496 #18497 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18497 - Make path asFileReference for Roassal examples #18441 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18441 # Tools - Fix #1140: [Finder] Feature request: Allow saving edited method code #1215 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1215 - Fixing 18505: Pulse is not working #1236 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1236 - Do not use UIManager in ProtocolNameChooser #1235 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1235 - Fix bug in file presenter in case a folder is empty #1234 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1234 - Improve folder selection in the File Browser #1231 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1231 - [Finder] Feature request: Allow saving edited method code #1140 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/issues/1140 - Make sure that we could have the completion working on the local clasâ¦ #18516 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18516 - First version of a driver for InsertSubclassDriver #18495 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18495 # Spec - Add tests for gh-1735 #1817 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1817 - Demo classes renamed to match better their purpose. #1816 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1816 - Fix Active presenter of a Notebook is not available in the #whenSelectedTabChangedDo: #1815 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1815 - latest changes #1814 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1814 - A fixed-width or fixed-height SpBoxLayout should not grow or shrink when adding or removing presenters #1813 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1813 # Command Lime - Add tests for Pharo command line #18473 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18473 - replace st and eval command line handlers by clap commands #18514 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18514 - add invalid code evaluation cli tests #18512 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18512 # Cleanup - Deprecate MailComposition that is in Morphic #18509 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18509 - Reduce the number of extensions in the system #18501 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18501

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