From: Slava P. <sp...@gj...> - 2000-07-25 10:18:39
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Someone could write a plugin that loads the skin l&f and registers it with the Swing LookAndFeel class. Then, it will appear as a choice in the l&f dropdown menu in Utilities->Global Options->General. Slava Healy Philip-phealy02 wrote: > > This feature is already in jedit to some extent - the ability to set the > look and feel. This code merely extends the number of look and feels (sp?) > that are available by loading GTK/KDE themes and converting them to java > look and feels. Apart from serious applications (e.g. if you are running > KDE you want jedit to look like KDE), the ability to change an application's > look and feel has a big "gee whizz" factor - look how much this feature has > added to the popularity of Mozilla, Neoplanet, Winamp, etc. Even Emacs is > getting a GTK binding, so it too will support themes. IMO this adds a > cutting-edge feature to jEdit and comes at little cost (no major code > restructuring etc.). It is not perfect however. Judging from the > screenshots you cannot change the applications title bar, so you are stuck > with whatever one your window manager gives you. This takes away from the > overall effect a good bit. > > I think the question is really whether this feature would be a valuable > addition to jEdit or just bloat. Perhaps the best way to find out is to add > this feature to one of the upcoming prereleases so that we can have a chance > to play with it. If it sucks, it sucks and it will be dropped. If it is > good, it will be another of jEdit's already impressive list of cutting edge > features. |