Are you guys running NetBeans with JDK6 -update1- or later? If so, the look and feel should pick up your gtk themes automatically. (Running with JDK 6 earlier than update 1 will -not- automatically use the GTK look and feel if I remember correctly because there were some serious bugs. (If you're running KDE, I'm not sure what the story is, but certainly with Gnome this is supposed to work - and did work for me when I was running Ubuntu earlier this year.)
And if you can run JDK7.... http://weblogs.java.net/blog/campbell/archive/2007/02/swing_and_gtk_w_1.html -- Tor On Nov 13, 6:23 am, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 12, 6:41 pm, Jess Holle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > John Nilsson wrote: > > I have > > never seen the point in getting so up-tight about look-and-feel, font > > smoothing, etc. Barring such fundamental errors, this stuff is utterly > > subjective and should be utterly irrelevant if the tool does the job. > > That pretty much sums up why look and feel issues should (almost) > never be given to coders to cure. For various reasons I'm also making > the (painful) transfer from eclipse to NetBeans. One big difference > is that the eclipse look and feel gives the impression that it was > designed rather than simply implemented. > > The Nimbus LaF is a massive improvement over metal but the blobby 3D > look went out of fashion some years ago with everyone else. Its > appearance on the latest release somewhat undermines that fact that > NetBeans includes many industry leading features. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
