Well I just installed FC6 and thought I may as well install the latest JDK. So I grabbed Java 6 beta. Seems to work well. I recall a while back that it was said Swing would be sufficiently integrated with the GTK theme engine so as to make using SWT obsolete (at least on linux). Well I can say after just playing with the swingset demo that GTK integration is very poor. About 75-85% of the theming cues are properly picked up, but other things like fonts are not at all. So hopefully Sun can fix this before the real release as right now swing apps look like there are trying to imitate GTK, but not well enough to really look or feel integrated into the GTK world. Anyway. Just an observation. Hopefully it will get better soon. In the meantime, SWT's place as the most-integrated GUI toolkit (as much as SWT sucks architecturally) is fairly safe on Linux.
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