yes Tudor, I did not want to imply that problem was not solved with scroll bars. It was , I can see them now and thank you for your effort.
Dont see this as just discomfort of white, I have hard time distinguishing GUI elements and yes that creates discomfort.
As a musician we have "dynamics" as a graphics artist we have "contrast" these are super crucial concepts for any artists. Why ? because they are crucial to the viewer and listener. Of course it has to do with how our brain process information and that differs from person to person. Pharo white theme is what should be taught in design classes as an example to avoid.
For example now I am typing this in my gmail , gmail uses a white theme, yet you can see gmail understands and respects basic Design principles. Still my eyes don't like all this white , but, they dont have a problem finding GUI elements and making sense of things.
In any case my opinion is just an opinion, get feedback from other people, try to find a common ground.
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Tudor Girba tudor@tudorgirba.com wrote:
Hi,
Right. I thought I addressed the scrollbar problems and that you acknowledged that you see them now.
As for the discomfort related to whiteness, it is a different problem that I would not mix with the ability of distinguishing a piece of UI.
Doru
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:16 AM, kilon alios kilon.alios@gmail.comwrote:
Another big hater of the white theme in moose and pharo here. I can barely see those text fields , I have spoken here about my problem with scrollbars too, I have to really look intense and its tiresome and makes the usage hard for me. I already agree with most of points people have made. I was never comfortable with light themes, the ideal for me would be a dark theme but of course cause I took a look at Pharo theme classes and tried to make my own dark theme I realized the painful way that's easier said than done.
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Guillaume Larcheveque < guillaume.larcheveque@gmail.com> wrote:
when I'm perfectly in the axis: 0.96
when I'm not in the axis: 0.8699999999
However lines have twice the height of the border so it' easier to see.
I can understand that you want to have the less intrusive theme to put forward vizualisations but in my opinion at least the window that have focus should have more colors and contrast.
2014-04-08 7:02 GMT+02:00 Tudor Girba tudor@tudorgirba.com:
Hi Guillaume,
Thanks.
The contrast of the gray was reported before and I thought that we solved it by making the gray a bit darker. Finding this problem depends on the screen, and given that you have a less performant screen, could you please do the following experiment?
Experiment: pick from the following picture the lightest gray that you see and then send back the number of the model (you can easily do this in GTInspector)
view := ROMondrianViewBuilder new. view shape rectangle withoutBorder; width: 400; height: 1; fillColor: [ :each | Color gray: each ]. view nodes: (1 to: 0 by: -0.01). view verticalLineLayout gapSize: 10. view
Doru
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Guillaume Larcheveque < guillaume.larcheveque@gmail.com> wrote:
The main problem was the border of each window. For someone who is not aware of every tool, they sometime missed the bottom of a window and they try to click on another one but were still on the previous one (this is just one problem that I remember).
Because my goal was not to experiment the theme, I quickly moved users to the other glamourus theme.
The problem is even bigger when you have a screen of bad quality like my acer laptop where I cannot see the border at all if I'm not right in the axis of my screen.
2014-04-06 8:33 GMT+02:00 Tudor Girba tudor@tudorgirba.com:
It's not quite so. It's just that we are not used to it. But, we can
get used to with practice. Let's just start and in a year from now we will be better :).
One way to do it is to talk about principles. For example, one principle I want in a basic theme is to use the least amount of graphical variables it can so that other interfaces that are built on top of it have the freedom to utilize the rest of the variables. Of course, the interface should still satisfy basic usability requirements like finding a piece of information.
Another way to do it is to talk about actual cases that people have difficulties with and look at what can be improved there. So, what kind of information could not be found? What specific actions could not be carried out?
Doru
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Alexandre Bergel < alexandre.bergel@me.com> wrote:
> This is amazing to see how user interfaces are so subjective and > hard to formalize. At first, I was not happy with the white theme at all. > But now, I find it nicer than the default theme. Unfortunately, I cannot > say what i exactly like in the white theme. > > Alexandre > > > On 5 Apr 2014, at 05:42, Guillaume Larcheveque < > guillaume.larcheveque@gmail.com> wrote: > > I confirm that I'm always changing the theme. The main reason is > that there is no contrast at all. > > For the usability experiments with people, I had a teaches on Moose > with other INRIA engineers (who doesn't use pharo) and the first comment > was that the look is not friendly at all and they had difficulties with it. > > > 2014-04-04 22:13 GMT+02:00 Tudor Girba tudor@tudorgirba.com: > >> Thanks for the input. >> >> If you say it like that there are little chances of changing >> anything. The only way we can improve is to know why something does not >> work. Only when we know the reasons can we start to react properly. So, >> please do let us know what does not work. >> >> Just because it is about the way something looks does not mean that >> we cannot have a structure discussion about it. >> >> Please note that I am not saying that the white theme is the >> ultimate design. It is not. But, to find other means of expressions we have >> to leave the classic one and build simple things in simple ways. The white >> theme has a small amount of visual variables which goes hand in hand with >> the philosophy of Pharo. This is something to nurture, not to push away. If >> something does not work for a reason then we look at it. For example, when >> the scrolling did not work, we changed the color. I want to spend the >> energy in doing that, but I need your input. >> >> Just for the record, I am doing similar usability experiments with >> people that do not know Pharo upfront, and they seem to have no problem >> finding their way. So, it is not quite as random as it might appear. >> >> Doru >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Johan Fabry jfabry@dcc.uchile.clwrote: >> >>> >>> For the record, I am not so happy with the white theme either. >>> >>> On Apr 3, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Stéphane Ducasse < >>> stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote: >>> >>> > Hi >>> > >>> > I checked here in rmod and I realized that NOBODY uses the white >>> theme and I realized that I was not the only one to >>> > get fedup with it. So when can it be not the default one? >>> > >>> > Stef >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Moose-dev mailing list >>> > Moose-dev@iam.unibe.ch >>> > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- >>> >>> Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry >>> PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of >>> Chile >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Moose-dev mailing list >>> Moose-dev@iam.unibe.ch >>> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> www.tudorgirba.com >> >> "Every thing has its own flow" >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moose-dev mailing list >> Moose-dev@iam.unibe.ch >> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev >> >> > > > -- > *Guillaume Larcheveque* > > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > Moose-dev@iam.unibe.ch > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > Moose-dev@iam.unibe.ch > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev > >
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