<Swing Dev> [13] Review Request: 8177960 Deprecate the Swing Motif Look and Feel and document it as unsupported on macOS

[Prasanta Sadhukhan]

Looks good to me.

Regards
Prasanta
On 05-Mar-19 6:17 AM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> Hello.
> Please review the fix for JDK 13.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8177960
> CSR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8218637
> Fix: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8177960/webrev.01
>
> This is a request to deprecate the Swing Motif Look and Feel,
> and document it as unsupported on macOS platform in JDK 13.
>
> The Motif L&F has long been part of the Swing implementation
> shipped with the JDK, although unlike L&Fs such as Metal and
> Nimbus it is not exposed in Java APIs and not part of the Java SE 
> specification.
>
> This look and feel was implemented as the System look and feel for the
> Solaris platform at time when the CDE/Motif environment was used the
> principal supported desktop environment. But it was placed in shared code
> and provided and supported on all platforms including Windows and 
> later macOS.
>
> Since it is superseded as a system L&F by the GTK L&F and has limited 
> use and
> additionally as a L&F is very dated visually, we would like to 
> discourage further use.
>
> Note in some future release we may remove it completely, or we may remove
> it from the shared code to stop distributing it on Windows and macOS.
> These are mentioned here to give the most possible notice of such
> possible additional changes.
>