Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-Gnome is cool but it's a Bad Thing.

[Bastien R. N. <br...@fr...>]

Ed Symanzik wrote:
> The screenshots are cool but here's why this is a Bad Thing:
> 
> - I write Java so my applications will be portable.  Gnome is
>   not portable.
> 
> - Microsoft did the same thing, tying Java to Windows calls, 
>   and they got their hand slapped.  It was bad then and it's
>   bad now.
> 
> Perhaps I don't understand but it seems to me this should be
> done as UIManager.setLookAndFeel("org.gnome.GnomeLookAndFeel")
> or perhaps by rewriting awk/swing to use gnome.

s/awk/awt/

Take a look at the GNU Classpath project if you want SWING ("portable") 
with a Gnome look and feel. If you don't like writing "non-portable 
code" as you put it, just don't use Java-Gnome.
If an application is properly designed and written, you can replace 
Swing code by Java-Gnome code, giving you a truly native GUI on a Gnome 
desktop.

That's a choice, and I like it.


Cheers