Trick out your image
Here’s another package that we use quite a bit here, NewSystemIcon. It adds two new sub-menus to the System menu that allow one to pick a non-standard icon to be used throughout the image as well as a menu to change a global background color. Some may find this useful when running multiple images at the same time or simply when they need to differentiate special ones.
Here’s a default look of the launcher,
Extended System menu,
Default Icon menu,
Default Color menu,
Green launcher with the Squares icon,
Blue launcher with the Book icon,
Head over to Public Repository to grab latest NewSystemIcon and see if you like it. Oh and let me know if you find any issues, this is a goodie after all.
Categories: Smalltalk, Usability, VisualWorks
Excellent, Boris. Thanks for the goodie. In my environment, I will almost always have multiple images open. This will help lend some organization.
One thing: I’m missing the globe icon.
Some of those icons are likely from packages that you don’t have loaded, for instance Globe is probably from WebToolkit. I’d considered an option of showing all toolbar icons currently defined in the image, but talked myself out of it given how many that may be and settled on a smaller set that I know I will use. Feel free to tweak it, I don’t mind others improving on the (little) work that I’ve done.
Thanks!
I have problems loading this goodie into my VW 7.4 image. Seems to be a kind of an endless loop.
I don’t have 7.4 installed at the moment, but my co-workers have been using it for a quite a while now. Any chance you could break into the loop and post a stack? Or even email it to me at bpopov@gmail.com.