<Swing Dev> [9] Review request for 8136366 Add a public API to create a L&F without installation

[Mario Torre]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Alexander Scherbatiy
<alexandr.scherbatiy at oracle.com> wrote:
> May be someone wants to get
> fonts or colors from Windows L&F on Linux for its own custom L&F? It would
> be useful to allow it.

I don't think this would make any sense, the colours would still
depend on a specific version of the OS, so is not clear what
UIDefaults are returned by the Windows LAF on Linux or OSX, and those
may also be different in different versions of Windows itself.

I believe the Windows LAF is not "simulated" either, but the rendering
is redirected to native widgets pretty much like the GTK/OSX Look and
Feels work, so I doubt that running an application with the Windows
LAF under Linux would work at all (or perhaps it could is running with
wine, is that possible?), but I admit I didn't try this, so I'm open
to be very surprised :)

I think the sanest approach is to not support this scenario, though.

Cheers,
Mario