I think a move to GTK 3 would eliminate a class of java/Linux desktop issues we run across today. My concern would be the long term maintenance of this piece...
On Wednesday, 27 August 2014, Mario Torre <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- Cheers, Martijn
