-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/12/10 10:45 , Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Wildam Martin <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > The default theme of Netbeans is usually the OS-like one. > > > I think that's the point, really. OS-/like/. It doesn't /quite/ > look the same as would be expected from a native app. It's > surprisingly tricky to do this in general. For example, when > FireFox went with an OS-like theme, there were many complaints > from mac people that it still felt out of place. Even if you get > the look right, quite frequently, the behaviours aren't all there. > My favourite example is Cmd-Ctrl-D. I a native mac app, this looks > up a word in the dictionary. In an app with an OS-like theme, it > goes beep. Beep. Beep. Your word means Beep. It's just a matter to use the Quaqua Look and Feel. And you even get the native Mac OS X FileChooser, etc... So, really no needs for the SWT even on Mac OS X.
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