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FAQ: Look and Feel
Squeak's MVC user interface looks a heck of a lot like the MVC that the PARC guys were playing with way back when. I mean, honestly, do you really think that there are too many users who enjoy those funny pop-up scrollbars? I sure don't. But, then, I never use Squeak's MVC. I use Morphic. Morphic is really quite its own thing. In fact, Morphic is so different from anything else, I think it deserves its own interface, which evolves as people evolve it. (See Starting up Morphic.)
Anyhow, those are just my thoughts, and this is an open source project. There is a project going on to support a variety of Appearance / Themes / Skins to go on top of Morphic. There is also a version of 1.23 that uses the native widgets to draw many things in MVC rather than using the default thingys, and it's very, very shaky, so I didn't feel like using it. Also, the size of windows components doesn't fit well for Squeak, which is more svelte.
Personally, I have never really cared which skin goes on my interface as long as it works in a nice consistent manner. I wish I could say so much about the Windows interface, but Morphic, in its own right, is really approaching this ability.
See Customizing the Squeak UI for tips on changing the look and feel of Squeak. And also the Screenshots of Squeak page has some pictures of different looks and feels.
(By the way, Squeak's MVC interface probably looks a lot like the old PARC MVC interface from the 70's, because it basically is the old PARC MVC interface from the 70's, with minor changes. But you probably already knew that. :-) Morphic is more recent, of course.)