[self-interest] Making morphic look nicer

Russell Allen mail at russell-allen.com
Sun Feb 6 02:24:07 UTC 2011


Sounds like a font issue. Whatever it is is certainly isn't your fault!

Are you on Linux? If so, what distro and version? Also if you could paste in the result of 'xlsfonts' that might help.

- Russell

On 06/02/2011, at 10:17 AM, Duke Normandin wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Feb 2011, Jan-Paul Bultmann wrote:
> 
> > On Feb 5, 2011, at 7:29 AM, Russell Allen wrote:
> >
> > > [Attachment(s) from Russell Allen included below]
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > One thing I would like 4.5 to do is look and feel a bit more modern.
> > >
> > >
> > > I've been trying out some small adjustments to fonts, spacing,
> > > colours etc and have a snapshot at
> > >
> > > http://selflanguage.org/files/releases/4.5/experimental/050211.snap
> > >
> > >
> > > Try it out and let me know how it looks. It should look much
> > > better on Mac than Linux, I'm afraid, but I'm working on that.
> > >
> > > The aim is to make incremental changes that add up to default
> > > niceness. I don't think it is particularly practical to do a whole
> > > themeing engine at the moment, there's too much cruft to
> > > uncruft. But of course don't let me stop you if you want to try it!
> >
> > Looks pretty rad. A bit too much space for my taste :D
> 
> Admittedly, I don't know what I'm doing - too new to Self - hardly no
> experience with Squeak.
> 
> However, when I load the experimental snap, all I get is several
> vertical "boxes", or whatever. I can't raise _any_ menu. Can't even
> quit the snap. Am I missing something?
> -- 
> Duke Normandin
> Turner Valley, Alberta, Canada
> 

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