Possible new project: OpenJDK LaF

[Stephen F Northover]

It makes sense to move to GTK3.  This is the latest UI technology for 
GTK and where the focus will go for future development.  Eclipse has 
already moved to GTK3 (but remains compatible with GTK2 when GTK3 is not 
installed).

Steve

On 2014-08-27, 11:56 AM, Mario Torre 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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