It's been close to 6 hours that I've been playing with the defaults
offered with Pharo 3.
Everything works so much more smoothly than Squeak! It also feels great.
What's kind of problematic (as I see it) is the "look".
There are 3 themes that I got with the default image;
Pharo 3, Vistary and Watery.
Look good, but somehow give off the feel of having more style than
substance.
I remember using something called Java Swing long back.
It too had a plethora of themes, but the one that was the most detailed,
and well designed (as in how well it worked), was something called "Java
Steel".
Please see the images at;
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/figures/uiswing/lookandfeel/OceanLAF.gif
https://today.java.net/images/2004/02/laf_fig2.gif
If there could be some way to have that look and feel, while adhering to
the Java LaF Guidelines for the same, we might have a Pharo system which
would be not only neater looking, but also lighter weight (by virtue of
fewer extravagant graphical properties).
Hope this suggestion isn't preposterous. :)
~Mayuresh
