Possible new project: OpenJDK LaF

[Martijn Verburg]

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 <neugens at redhat.com> 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
>
>
>

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Cheers,
Martijn