<Swing Dev> Gtkjfilechooser: new release 1.4

[Costantino Cerbo]

Hallo Pavel, Hallo everyone

2009/12/14 Pavel Porvatov <Pavel.Porvatov at sun.com>:
> Is it a good idea to implement Windows 7 native file chooser on Java!?
> This topic has been discussed in the Swing and AWT teams for some time. By
> this time these considerations drove us to the following idea: the
> java.awt.FileDialog class should be improved instead of implementing all
> possible LAFs of file chooser (for example we need GTK, KDE, Windows Vista
> and Windows 7 LAFs)...
I don't know if it's a good idea to emulate the native L&F with Swing
instead of using directly native code with AWT.
Anyway that's the philosophy of Swing and the GTK L&F already exists
and we must do something to improve the current FileChooser (it's too
outdated!).
My project is a concrete attempt to solve this annoying issue... If we
solve this problem with java.awt.FileDialog, I'am also happy ;-)


> I do not think this GTKJFileChooser would be a good candidate for JDK7
> time frame by the reasons I described above, although we may reconsider
> this in the following releases. Does it make sense?
When I wrote that my GTKJFileChooser is almost "feature-complete", I
meant that it is quite usable (on Fedora quite much).
Of course there is still some work to do, but I think the current
state is a good start point.

IMO the issues that you listed aren't critical and they can be fixed
reasonably fast with a little effort and cooperation of other people.

This new GTKJFileChooser can be also be included in a following
OpenJDK release: we must only decide, if it makes sense to continue
this effort and how.

If there are other people in this mailing list that are interested in
this project, please write your opinions and we can elaborate a better
strategy for the future steps.
For example I can also move the source code on java.net and give you
commit right.