Re: Java and Gnome2

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 12:37, Mikael Carneholm wrote:
> Having run Gnome2 for a while now, I realized that all non-AA 
> programs look terribly crappy. This includes OpenOffice.org and all 
> Java programs. For OO.o, I think I read that there is work going on 
> to maker a Gnome2 port, but what about making a Java VM that 

I doubt there will bt a gtk2/gnome2 port any time soon.  It'd be about
as easy as porting KDE to gtk2...

> uses the Gnome2 libs for rendering? I think such a JVM would 
> make Linux/Gnome2 a very appealing platform for Java! (just like 
> OS X). Of cource it would be nice if GTK2-themeing would affect 
> Java programs as well.

This I've not clue on how easy/hard/feasible it would be, but it would
certainly be nice.  Then PCGen could look pretty on my machine.  ~,^

Just as a note, making it run on GTK won't make it *act* like a GTK
program; custom dialogs will likely have buttons in the wrong order, the
interfaces as a whole most likely won't be designed around the HIG, etc.

I've seen no study to support it, but I'm imagining it may be better for
users for non-native GTK2/GNOME2 apps to appear different, if for no
better reason than to make it more obvious they won't behave as they
expect.  I could very well be extremely wrong there, tho.  ^,^

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