Doug Scott wrote:
The Metal L&F in Java 1.5 is Great! It's extensively
different from
Metal in Java 1.4 (which wasn't stellar). The Java
1.5 GTK L&F is a bit
demented as far as colours and widgets go.
Josh,
The Metal L&F matches nothing else on Solaris. Not CDE, not JDS version
whatever. Yes it is certainly better than 1.4, but it is a cross platform compromise.
JDS is the direction Solaris Nevada is going, and all apps should look as though they
belong together. Having apps with their own L&F would (should) never happen on Mac
OSX, and this should be what Solaris is trying to achieve.
I acknowledge your point -- I just like the Metal L&F. I suppose the
fact that any complete UNIX/X11 environment that I've seen has often
included a variety of toolkits and widget sets that aren't always
consistent has desensitized me somewhat.
Having played with some of the 1.6 betas (I'm yet to
look at the new
release candidate) it appears that Metal is still
roughly the same as it
was in 1.5, with the additional of a few cosmetic
enhancements and text
anti-aliasing. The GTK L&F in 1.6 is also vastly
improved, if you like
that sort of thing.
The GTK L&F in 1.6 is good, but it is not the default L&F for JDS apps on Solaris. Java
1.6 apps I have run so far, all use metal L&F with crappy looking fonts by default. It
would be nice if Sun owned apps like netbeans would have the default L&F on Solaris as the
native desktop.
Doug
Where is the option to change L&F's in Netbeans 5.X (if there is one)?
I had a brief look earlier but I couldn't see it.
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Joshua M. Clulow
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