2010/4/10 Michał Bendowski <[email protected]>: > 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.
The default theme of Netbeans is usually the OS-like one. On my main Linux machine it looks as most other applications and even on Windows it looks like a Windows application. Maybe the Mac-Look-And-Feel could not be implemented due to patent protection. ;-) > 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". You are right. One big advantage of Swing: As everything built/rendered by Swing, you are completely free in building widgets (because you don't need to use the OS ones) and you can easily have different look and feels. I have seen plenty of applications on Windows who tried to be cool and hence used different quirks to build different window frames and the like. -- Martin Wildam -- 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.
