Re: [Pharo-users] What UI direction now (or in the near future)?

[Alain Plantec via Pharo-users]

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Hello Petr,

So far we have Morphic  (Athens is the next underlying framework for 2D 
Drawing).
Thanks to Nicolai, Athens is near to be fully integrated.
We have Spec for widgets composition.

Regarding Bloc:

> Sub-questions:
> 
> A) Is Bloc (complete Morphic rewrite, sigh) “one man show”? What about 
> future, support, long-term issues? Look at Marina CMS framework, even used 
> for Pharo website, but not maintained now…

I’ve started Bloc with Stephane. So far I’m the main developper, But, you are 
perfectly right. No future for Bloc if it stays like that. 
We’ve stopped adding because now, design decisions are to be made regarding the 
widgets layer. 
Currently, we are writing a documentation of the core. The next step is to make 
it available in the hope we will get feedbacks and also to bootstrap 
contributions from the community.
It will take time. Be sure that I will stop Bloc if we stay only two or if 
someone else come and propose something better than Bloc. No problem, I’ve fun 
with Bloc.

Spec will stay, so we will also have to build new adapters to be able reuse 
tools.

> 
> B) Is Bloc prepared with Retina displays in mind (perfect smooth fonts and 
> graphics, scaling, more detailed images for retina etc.)?

Bloc bring nothing on that point except that it is is based on Athens 

> 
> C) Is current keyboard + UI component focus support perfect or pain in…

I guess yes :)

Cheers
Alain


> 
> Isn’t a “bad time” for this decision (Pharo) now?
> 
> Thanks very much for any brief hint, Petr Fischer
> 
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