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changing appearance of Swing [was: GTK+ Quartz Project Started]
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  • Subject: changing appearance of Swing [was: GTK+ Quartz Project Started]
  • From: Rajpaul Bagga <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:04:11 -0700

On Thursday, September 13, 2001, at 03:24 AM, Paul Bayley wrote:
...
I hope that if you go ahead with this that there is an option to have
GTK apps appear conspicuously different than other mac apps. I can
currently do this with Qt and Swing which I make look like CDE and Metal
respectively due to the fact that not one Qt or Swing app behaves like a
mac app.
...

How does one change the look of a Java Swing application to be something
other than the default semi-Aqua look?

Thanks,
-Rajpaul

On Thursday, September 13, 2001, at 03:24 AM, Paul Bayley wrote:

> At 7:34 AM +0100 9/11/01, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>> For any of those of you interested in helping, please join the
>> GTK-Quartz-Devel mailing list at
>> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-quartz-devel
>>
>> The main project page is at
>> http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-quartz
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- Finlay
>
> Considering GTK doesn't have interface abstraction like Cocoa does, I
> don't consider any more a viable multiplatform API than Carbon.
>
> I hope that if you go ahead with this that there is an option to have
> GTK apps appear conspicuously different than other mac apps. I can
> currently do this with Qt and Swing which I make look like CDE and
> Metal respectively due to the fact that not one Qt or Swing app behaves
> like a mac app.
>
> GTK has always been used as a utility toolkit for X11 programmers so I
> don't see the advantage of porting GTK to Quartz when we already have
> rootless X11, but I guess I can't stop you from porting it.
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