New Squeak UI Enhancements Released
30 August, 2007
Gary Chambers released new UI Enhancements for Squeak. You can now access these changes from the Squeak Source Repository or through Package Universes. You can read more by following the following threads here and here. Also check out the new UI team. Our thanks to Gary and the UI Team!!
The Weekly Squeak 
30 August, 2007 at 20:54
Nice work. Took me a while to figure out how to activate it, though (Preference Browser -> morphic -> uiTheme).
30 August, 2007 at 21:42
We’d like to take credit for this wonderful enhancement to Squeak’s UI, but it’s all Gary’s doing. All credit goes to him! Thanks, Gary, it’s great!
brad
31 August, 2007 at 00:16
Hip hip! I have will have to check this out soon. If it is well done, I really hope it gets adopted in the mainline.
31 August, 2007 at 02:26
@Brad,
I agree the credit should go to Gary, but if it is going to get anywhere it will need to be supported and having the UI team will certainly help!
Thanks!!
– Ron
1 September, 2007 at 00:53
No trouble. Ideally we would go ahead with a framework that encompasses the current state of Morphic but allows us to progress into further areas…
Still, this just shows what can be done with Morphics and a bit of tweaking! 😉
1 September, 2007 at 13:52
Hi,
I experimented a bit with Squeak and wrote small test programs, and I would like to install the theme. Sorry but I don’t find any “development universe” to browse, also I don’t find any “Preference Browser”. Why is there no step-by-step installation guide like on Linux? I thought Squeak is an intuitive system?
On the tools Flap there is a preference icon and when I search for “UI theme” the answer is “Preferences matching UI theme”. What does that mean?
Stefan
2 September, 2007 at 12:20
Where can I find some more info on how to install these UI improvements? Is there just an image I can download?
2 September, 2007 at 14:16
Beautiful!
Thanks. Keep making Squeak cooooooool.
Thanks again.
5 September, 2007 at 14:46
@Geert
Damien’s Squeak-Dev beta image now includes the new look enhancements.
http://damien.cassou.free.fr/squeak-dev/beta/
You might need to change the UITheme. Try ‘UIThemeVistary beCurrent’
5 September, 2007 at 15:27
Geert,
As mentioned, the latest developer’s image contains the UI Enhancements.
Alternatively, there are instructions at:
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6005
although you need to know how to use Monticello or the Package Universe Browser (links provided)
7 September, 2007 at 00:28
Wow, awesome! 😀
Great work. It’s nice to see Squeak getting better every day. Amazing!
Thank you all.