Hallo, I want to reopen the discussion about dropping support for java 1.6 for future versions of saros -- those including a new GUI. This affects only the JRE launching the IDE.
My motivation behind this is that I would like to have the opportunity to use Java FX at least for displaying HTML pages in the provided browser. As a side note, it is *theoretically* possible to run Java FX 2 with JRE 1.6, but not in a platform independent way or without the installation of further libraries. A further drawback of Java Fx is that it is not included in the average OpenJDK bundle. However, a quick google search showed that there is the OpenJFX project which part of the OpenJDK project. So it seems users would not be forced to use the official JDK but only to install additional software. If we are not willing to require a JRE>= 1.7, I see only two alternatives if we want to build a HTML-GUI: 1. Embedding SWT in IntelliJ which has proven to be quite painful but not totally impossible. 2. Embedding the Swing-based jxBrowser (commercial but free of cost for us) in Eclipse which I have not tried yet. I do not think that using different browsers for Eclipse and IntelliJ is in the best interest of reducing duplicate code. Best Regards, Christian
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