[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 #18 from Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> ---
> we can't do this because we would possibly break existing applications running
> Java on Linux.

Then those applications are already broken on the GNOME desktop, where the GTK+
look&feel has always been the default! The change just makes them consistently
broken. ;-)

> Of course, is equally easy to force a specific look and feel

That depends. The "default" look&feel can be easily overridden through
swing.properties, the "system" look&feel cannot (swing.properties isn't even
looked at in that case), so without this patch, when applications went out of
their way to integrate properly (by setting the system look&feel by default),
they actually ended up LESS integrated both on KDE Plasma + oxygen-gtk and on
all the non-GNOME GTK+-based desktops than when they didn't, which was very
broken.

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