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Subject: Re: Integrating Java Swing with Oxygen
From: Shantanu Tushar Jha <shaan7in () gmail ! com>
Date: 2012-03-26 10:52:29
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Hi,
What a coincidence, one of my colleagues (who's a Java fan) was pretty sad
about how Java stuff doesn't look good on Ubuntu. If you guys can get this
done, at least people can use KDE and get good looks :)
Again, I've no insights about the technicalities, but I remember many KDE
distros make OOo (or LO) to use Oxygen stuff. Not sure if its helpful, but
I thought its worth mentioning :)
Cheers,
--
Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530)
http://www.shantanutushar.com
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Thom Castermans
<thom.castermans@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A brief introduction: I am an undergraduate student in Eindhoven, the
> Netherlands, studying Computer Science and Engineering.
> Together with a friend, studying the same as me but also Mathematics, we
> noticed how ugly Java Swing applications look in KDE.
> This is logical, since Swing does all the drawing itself. However, we,
> geeky as we are, decided this should be improved. First we
> searched a bit for a LAF (Look and Feel) for KDE. We found something that
> was made for KDE 1.0, so that's nothing really. Then,
> we looked at the possibility of having KDE render everything for Java. We
> still are trying this (mostly for native text rendering), but
> we haven't figured out yet if this is possible and if yes, how.
>
> Then, we started working on a LAF that should integrate Swing applications
> with Oxygen: Joxy was born. At the moment it is in prealpha
> and version 0.0.2 is available at SourceForge:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/joxy/. Both of us don't have lots of
> spare time, but we do
> our best to make it look as good as we can. The obvious goal is a
> pixel-precise KDE-look (but its far from that right now) :-)
>
> Now the reason I'm sending this mail is because I hope to get some
> feedback of you. What do you think about it, possible improvements, etc.
> Also, it would be nice if some of you guys with the real knowledge of
> KDE's rendering code would look at it. For most UI elements we have
> created, we looked at the actual KDE source, but since we are infant
> C++-programmers and KDE is quite a lot of code, we did not get all of it.
> Lastly, a bit of awareness of our project is always good, right? :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Thom and Willem
>
>
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Hi,<div><br></div><div>What a coincidence, one of my colleagues (who's a Java \
fan) was pretty sad about how Java stuff doesn't look good on Ubuntu. If you guys \
can get this done, at least people can use KDE and get good looks :)</div> \
<div>Again, I've no insights about the technicalities, but I remember many KDE \
distros make OOo (or LO) to use Oxygen stuff. Not sure if its helpful, but I thought \
its worth mentioning :)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div> <div><br \
class="Apple-interchange-newline">-- <br>Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530)<br><a \
href="http://www.shantanutushar.com/" \
target="_blank">http://www.shantanutushar.com</a></div><div><br><div \
class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Thom Castermans <span \
dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thom.castermans@gmail.com">thom.castermans@gmail.com</a>></span> \
wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px \
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br><br>A brief introduction: I am an \
undergraduate student in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, studying Computer Science and \
Engineering.<br> Together with a friend, studying the same as me but also \
Mathematics, we noticed how ugly Java Swing applications look in KDE.<br> This is \
logical, since Swing does all the drawing itself. However, we, geeky as we are, \
decided this should be improved. First we <br>searched a bit for a LAF (Look and \
Feel) for KDE. We found something that was made for KDE 1.0, so that's nothing \
really. Then, <br>
we looked at the possibility of having KDE render everything for Java. We still are \
trying this (mostly for native text rendering), but <br>we haven't figured out \
yet if this is possible and if yes, how.<br><br>Then, we started working on a LAF \
that should integrate Swing applications with Oxygen: Joxy was born. At the moment it \
is in prealpha<br>
and version 0.0.2 is available at SourceForge: <a \
href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/joxy/" \
target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/projects/joxy/</a>. Both of us don't have \
lots of spare time, but we do <br>our best to make it look as good as we can. The \
obvious goal is a pixel-precise KDE-look (but its far from that right now) :-)<br>
<br>Now the reason I'm sending this mail is because I hope to get some feedback \
of you. What do you think about it, possible improvements, etc.<br>Also, it would be \
nice if some of you guys with the real knowledge of KDE's rendering code would \
look at it. For most UI elements we have <br>
created, we looked at the actual KDE source, but since we are infant C++-programmers \
and KDE is quite a lot of code, we did not get all of it.<br>Lastly, a bit of \
awareness of our project is always good, right? :-)<br><br>
Cheers,<br>Thom and Willem<br>
<br><br>
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