Hi!
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 Rachel Greenham wrote:
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>Well, as far as I could see, the Window Manager gives you the basic
>window surrounding furniture - the close/maximise/minimise etc., but
>nothing inside the window of a Swing app.
Where also the JInternalFrame's show up. So it requires the implementation of
the window style, too.
>A KDE L&F would produce KDE
>style menus and other gadgets - probably via some sort of peering(?) so
>it could read the configured KDE settings and do things the way the
>current version of KDE does them. inc. colour and shape choices.
>
>Peering, of course, defeats the object of Swing. :-} I suppose you could
>reimplement the QTLib gadgets in Java, but you'd still have to read
>system/user config files to know what settings to use.
Of course, those features are only possible on real KDE systems, but if there
are some default settings (like the Win L&F uses them on my system), there
might be a chance, that Win users could use a good L&F on their systems, too.
:-)
Ciao,
Andreas
