Linked by Andy Roberts on Thu 16th Jun 2005 19:50 UTC
I've been fortunate enough recently to be in contact with Steve Northover. Despite him being very busy with SWT and the forthcoming release of Eclipse, I've managed to grab some of his time to answer some of my questions. To clarify from the outset, the views expressed by Steve are his own and not those of his employer.
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I don't get why someone always has to complain about fonts in Swing apps. They look just like fonts everywhere else. I'm using jEdit on Debian Sarge with ... ok, I hate to admit it, but I'm using Sun's 1.4.2 (dunno if jEdit works with GCJ4 -- I need to try it though). The text area of the editor has antialiased font rendering (though you can turn that on or off), and the menus just use some small X11 bitmapped font. It's lovely.
The *first* thing I did long ago when configuring my desktop was shut off subpixel font rendering. It leaves very distracting color artifacts. Pure black-n-white pixels look much better to my eye -- especially on my beautiful LCD monitor.
Anyhow, jEdit is written in Swing and the fonts look perfect. Exactly like fonts in, say, Firefox.