Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Jun 2004 03:13 UTC
Sun introduced recently the second version of Java Desktop System (JDS) for a flat fee per employee/per year. We tried it and here is what we found out about:
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> While they're at it, they could make Swing play nice with GTK+2 (I think it does already, or is that just GTK+1?), have all their Java apps use it and have a consistent desktop at the very least.
Sun's version of Java already have this capability. The real problem is the fact that they don't link all their java apps against the gtk+ engine, so you end up having 5 java apps included in the OS, and all look different:
http://img.osnews.com/img/5286/jds7.png
I pointed this out months ago, and the problem is still there.