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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Seriously, the rest of the desktop looks fine and then all of sudden you start looking at some java apps like the java control center and the fonts looks like something from Amiga circa 1988. And what's up with Yast2, did they slap a java front end onto the engine and that's why it looks like dogshit?
Come on Sun, can you assign one engineer to do fonts. It just hurts the eyes to look at it no matter what the L&F is. Swing might have a good api, but until they do something with fonts then I'll stick with SWT/JFace.
As someone else pointed out, unless they patched whatever 2.4.x kernel they're using in this, then it's absolutely ridiculous to not be using a 2.6.x kernel with a NPTL-enabled glibc. It's common knowledge that Java can get huge performance gains with NPTL.