Hi all, First of all, sorry for cross posting... I would like to kindly ask to direct all the replies to this thread to the "discuss" alias if possible.
Is a bit of time I'm playing with the idea of implementing a proper GTK3 look and feel for OpenJDK, something to make the jdk look a bit more modern and also take it as an opportunity to solve some of the issues the GTK2 laf has, including some related bugs like this: http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=729 I mentored a Summer of Code project last year where we produced a more or less working and complete implementation. It was a student project and the efforts to make it well abstracted and tested are really as close as making a new implementation, however it was great to show that we could have a basic and functional implementation in less than a month of work, the new GTK3 library looks way nicer! At the same time, since Swing will be [very] gradually replaced by JavaFX, I think it would be awesome to have a JavaFX based look and feel, something I started to play with last year as well but then put on hold because of tons of other things to do: https://neugens.wordpress.com/2013/07/21/javafx-look-and-feel-for-swing/ Recently I was convinced though that we should move forward with the Java laf: Swing has still lots to say, and JavaFX is not yet as integrated with OpenJDK as it should be (especially in Linux distribution, although is more popular within the OSX and Windows communities), but before I move forward (and get to propose a JEP for this) I would like some early feedback and gather some ideas/potential interest :) Another possible implementation would be based on QT, which is even cross platform by itself. So to recap, what are your feelings about an official OpenJDK look and feel collection? Cheers, Mario