Well, my primary intention was to somehow find a solution on the default
value of: |awt.useSystemAAFontSettings|
Which is actually would be a workaround of a JDK 11 bug, not setting
this value correctly on Linux (see:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Font+Rendering+Issues
).
So this value shall require some initial evaluation. Also there are a
number of properties in netbeans.conf and there is no good programmatic
way you can alter them. Thought of having a property file and a simple
javaagent would be enough.
However thinking this further, probably it would be good to make our
launcher itself smarter and have a different file which can be edited
both by hand and programmatically to provide an UI for all the Java
parameters.
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I feel the out of the box appearance really important, and having good
default settings is a place we can improve. Any ideas are welcome, as
I've just dropped mine here.
On 10/09/2018 07:08 PM, Tim Boudreau wrote:
What problem are you trying to solve?
Or, rather, what does this solve that editing netbeans,conf (by hand or
programmatically) it a module that calls System.setProperty()?
-Tim
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 8:37 PM Laszlo Kishalmi <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi all,
What do you think on the idea to create a simple Java agent which can
insert system properties into the JVM before NetBeans starts?
My motivation are the following:
1. Sometimes you need to change some properties to debug NetBeans
behaviour. Copy and change netbeans.conf can be clumsy. (Ok, I know
what I'm doing and it is fine for me, but we have other users.)
2. There can be a situation when some values needs to be computed, like
Java 11 were messing up with font rendering on Linux and there is no
proper default value for the antialiasing property which works on
all platform. Also dpi awareness for HiDPI would requires some logic
as well.
Unfortunately this won't solve the currently quiet bloated command line
in netbeans.conf (just probably reduce it a bit.)
It would be good to be able to set the Memory and GC flags for the IDE
as well (though memory would be sufficient)
What do you think?
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