Support for Apple Extensions

[Stephen Winnall]

I almost agree. Except that Apple plays around with the look, but not with the feel.  I think the two need to be distinguished.

Steve


On 05.07.2013, at 22:12, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> A native look and feel is a secondary issue.   Even Apple plays around with
> the look and feel.  For instance the "pro" apps like Final Cut Pro, have a
> very diferent look and feel from the "regular" apps, and nobody cares.
> Caspian and Modena will only bug a small number of the die hard Mac
> purists, compared to the big things like not having a screen menu bar or a
> proper Application menu, open events etc..
> Other features mentioned like the notification of the computer sleeping,
> putting files in the trash, etc. are all things that should have
> cross-platform APIs since they are concepts that are common to Windows and
> Linux as well.  I would much rather see a supported cross-platform API that
> just does the right thing on the current platform than to have to code OS
> specific things.  I think that is were the Orcale man hours need to be
> focused, and let the community continue to do things like AquaFX to handle
> the rest..
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Fabrizio Giudici <
> Fabrizio.Giudici at tidalwave.it> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 21:16:41 +0200, Will Herrmann <wjherrmann at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> AquaFX is one such third party class that tries to bridge this gap via
>>> CSS skins, although it's my understanding that it is still undergoing some
>>> major revisions so I would be reluctant to use it in a production
>> 
>> Sure, in fact it's targeted at JDK 8 (see my original mail) because of
>> skins, I suppose. But what about quality? Do you think it won't be optimal
>> and the only acceptable solution is a native l&f?
>> 
>> 
>> 
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