<AWT Dev> Bug 7130662/7165729

[Felix Natter]

"Denis S. Fokin" <denis.fokin at oracle.com>
writes:

> Hi Felix,

Hi Denis!

> the fix has been pushed in jdk8 workspace.

Is it true that OpenJDK and Oracle JDK have the same source code (minus
some closed source components in the oracle jdk)? How come that
OpenJDK<x> is sometimes uncompatible to JDK<x>? (I remember having
experienced a freemind bug only on OpenJDK, but that was OpenJDK_6_).

> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/awt/jdk/log?rev=7130662
>
> "Affected Versions" means that the problem exists in thespecified
> releases. Fixes are not necessarily back-ported in previous releases.

So I have to wait a few years till most of our users are using Java8
(JDK8, OpenJDK8)?

I'd like to replace the JFileChooser (Swing) by java.awt.FileDialog on
Linux because JFileChooser does not provide access to things like
network shares and USB sticks (without navigating to a distro dependent
location like /mnt/xxx or /media/xxx). The GTK L&F even provides a
really bad GTK1 file chooser lookalike.

The problem was discussed here:
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10597831/improving-jfilechooser-under-ubuntu-12-04-gtk
Is there a better solution than java.awt.FileDialog and working around
that bug?

Thanks! Best Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter