<Swing Dev> awful JButton

[Johan Henriksson]

Hello!

I've become tempted at some openjdk hacking. the JButton has pissed me
off for a long time. it doesn't work very well when shrunk:

* The text is replaced by ... even when ... takes almost more or as much
space
* instead of removing slack space at the sides of the text, it starts to
throw away the label

work-arounds in GUIs that has to be compact are really awful. I wouldn't
mind trying to fix this myself if someone gives me a few pointers (I'm
totally confused about AWT, java2d, any sort of acceleration and gtk(?))
but first:

1. would changing the behaviour break anything? (or enough to stop the
change?)
2. what's your opinion? would a patch be accepted?

/Johan