Thus spake Thomas Russ:
>
> On Oct 13, 2006, at 2:58 AM, Joel Uckelman wrote:
>
> > Anyway,
> > we're already changing to the Swing file chooser in 2.9 in order to
> > have
> > a more uniform UI, and the Swing file chooser doesn't have this
> > problem.
>
> I suppose that solves it, although I do like using the native
> file chooser UI. That presents a more uniform UI across applications
> on a particular machine and also allows one to exploit the nice
> additional features of operating systems.
>
> For example, I like having the color coding for the Mac OS
> show up in the dialog. I can understand a desire to have a
> more uniform UI across platforms, but I think there are more
> single-platform cross-application users than vice versa.
My initial motivation for switching the native file choosers to Swing
file choosers was because about half of the file choosers in VASSAL
were already Swing---I wanted to restore UI consistency *within* VASSAL.
Cross-platform UI consistency hadn't occurred to me; I agree that's not
especially important.
I run VASSAL and do development on Linux, which means that I see the hideous
Motif components that Sun choose for AWT peers when using the "native" file
chooser. The default look and feel for Swing is a massive aesthetic
improvement over Motif; and it's been ages since Motif was the widget set
that most XWindows apps use. I wish there were a way to use native file
choosers without being stuck with the crappy Motif one on Linux---the rest
of the Unix world moved on from Motif a decade ago, why not Sun?
--
J.
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