[Bug 729] GTKLookAndFeel should be the system look&feel on all GNU/Linux desktops

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http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=729

--- Comment #12 from Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> ---
> 1. Due to the crippled GTK2 theme interface, GtkLookAndFeel is horrible slow,
> and completely unuseable over remote X connections.

The change that was committed only enables it for local X connections.

Also, for GNOME, the GTK+ look&feel has always been the default (even over
remote X), the change lets other desktop environments also benefit from the
same system integration.

> There are quite a few apps trying to behave well by setting automatically the
> LnF returned by getSystemLookAndFeel

… as they should! (That should really be the default in Java to begin with!)

> and suddenly users would see crippled and slow java applications, just making
> Linux look again like a inferior desktop platform.

Users will actually see Java applications that match the look&feel of all other
applications on their system and do not look ugly and out of place as before.

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