FlatLaf uses their own themes https://www.formdev.com/flatlaf/themes/

Themes offer more flexibility then customization through properties files: 
https://www.formdev.com/flatlaf/properties-files/

Christian Lenz schrieb am 24.06.2022 um 14:13:
> Hey all,
>
> I prefer to have an option for this because not everyone likes it I Guess. If 
> we will have no Option then I prefer it as default. On the other Hand what 
> Thomas said, to Change the LaF of your choice, the theming Options is that 
> was we are Looking for. I dunno whether it is JSON or property files but this 
> is already there in swing and for this we have already a ticket: 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-3746 and DevCharly already 
> started a PR: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-3746
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris
>
> Von: Thomas Kellerer
> Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Juni 2022 13:54
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: FlatLAF tab style discussion
>
> Eirik Bakke schrieb am 24.06.2022 um 11:46:
>> Hi, dev.
>>
>> There's a discussion on https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/3115 about 
>> changing the default "look" of window system tabs in NetBeans. See the 
>> before/after screenshots there.
>>
>> With FlatLAF becoming the default look & feel since NetBeans 13, the tab 
>> components in the window system (over editors and sidebars) no longe 
>> resemble tabs, and are somewhat difficult to see. The proposed PR fixes 
>> this, by introducing a new look for the tabs that shows the selected tab as 
>> a proper tab while leaving a simplified flattened look for unselected tabs. 
>> Other kinds of tabs, e.g. in dialog boxes, or nested tabs in the Output 
>> pane, retain the more flat "blue underline" style.
>>
>> 1) Would people like this new style to become the default on NetBeans? (See 
>> screenshots in the PR above.)
>> 2) Should there be an option to switch back to the old style?
>
> I still prefer the  Windows Look & Feel, so I don't really care, but 
> regarding the FlatLaf integration:
>
> Maybe NetBeans could support customizing FlatLaf through external .properties 
> file, so people can customize it to their preferences.
>
> Users for my own (non-NetBeans, pure Swing) application were asking about 
> customization options for FlatLaf. So I integrated that.
>
> It's really not a huge effort, this can either be done through .properties 
> file (very easy to integrate) or through .theme files, which requires using a 
> different LnF class during initialization.
>
>
> Maybe that's an option for NetBeans as well.
>
>
> Just my 0.02€
> Thomas

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