On Apr 9, 6:54 pm, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: > At this point I believe it has outlived its usefulness for >>>95% of use > cases (fonts being rendered just the way you feel they should be does > /not/ count in my book) and serves only to unnecessarily fragment the > Java UI space -- and IDE space for that matter (as plug-ins would like > have more shared code between IDE's if they all used java.* and javax.* > packages rather than SWT).
>From the technical point of view, using a common UI library included in the JDK would be great. From the user point of view - Eclipse looks like a decent Mac app, while Netbeans is just plain ugly. From what I understand SWT uses native OS widgets, while Swing does not - and that's exactly the difference. One can tell Swing apps are "alien". Michał Bendowski -- 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.
