September 2025 - Pharo-users

Pharo News of the Week 37/2025

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo News of the Week 37/2025 - [ANN] Live Coding and Djselecta with Lucretio + Coypu 18/09/2025 https://pharo.org/news/2025-09-12-Concert-Coypu.html - [ANN] Pharo Consortium New Academic Member EMIT University of Fianarantsoa https://pharo.org/news/2025-09-11-Consortium-emit.html - [ANN] Fondation UniversitÃ© de Lille: Pharo selected as supported project for the Call 2024: https://fondation.univ-lille.fr/projets/les-projets-en-cours/soutenir-les-e… - SJsonPath is a Smalltalk library that provides a fluent API for creating JsonPath expression strings https://github.com/mumez/SJsonPath If you want to add your news to this list, use this form: https://tinyurl.com/4c89buy4 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Fixes - Update POP3Client.class.st, use allButFirst #18523 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18523 # Command Line - Replace clean and save commands by their clap version #18525 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18525 - add test runner clap command #18521 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18521 - Replace metacello command line handler by clap command #18517 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18517 # FFI - FFI valueholder multiple arity: support returning array of structures #18479 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18479 # Tools - Fix syntax of "packages selected" for the finder #1238 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1238 - [Refactorings] Removing dependencies on NautilusRefactoring #18524 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18524 # Website - add consortium emit #105 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/105

Sept. 12, 2025

[ANN] Pharo Consortium New Academic Member: EMIT University of Fianarantsoa

by Marcus Denker

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/>

Sept. 12, 2025

Re: A couple of newb questions

by Noury Bouraqadi

Hi Will, For changing the scale factor on Pharo 12, the simplest option is to evaluate the following in a Playground: World scaleFactor: 1.3. But, the fonts become ugly. On latest Pharo, the settings tools allow to change and the scaling with better results. Though I didn't test it. Noury On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 7:25â¯AM Will Senn via Pharo-users < pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > 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 > -- Noury Bouraqadi

Sept. 8, 2025

A couple of newb questions

by Will Senn

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

Sept. 8, 2025

Pharo News of the Week 36/2025

by Marcus Denker

# 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

Sept. 5, 2025