Richard,


as a comment on VA Smalltalk: you are referring to the Linux version,
which is also your Screenshot. I agree that Linux version of VA
Smalltalk is far from what I'd call enjoyable or beautiful.
If you take a look at the Windows version of VAST, you'll immediately
realize that Linux users miss a lot of nice stuff that has been added to
VA Smalltalk over the last few releases.

The reason here is most likely that commercial Smalltalk projects mainly
target Windows. This has changed for headless servers and I think it is
slowly starting to happen for GUI clients, but it will take some time.
We developers like Linux, but most of our end users still live and
breathe on Windows. Not that I like it, but it's a fact, at least in the
commercial field.

Joachim