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Re:Ask HN: Does Java need a modern Java UI toolkit for deskt... by chopin on Thursday March 24, 2022 @12:10PM (#30791867)
> The problem with all these desktop UI toolkits is they have a look and feel all of their own (IMHO). You can make buttons look like Windows buttons on Windows and OSX buttons on OSX but that's only superficially cross-platform.

SWT (the UI library which drives Eclipse) would give you that on Windows, OSX and Linux. But it's not exactly light-weight...

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Re:Ask HN: Does Java need a modern Java UI toolkit for deskt... by warning26 on Thursday March 24, 2022 @12:20PM (#30792004)
SWT still doesn't really feel native though. The toolbars, in particular, look like they belong in Office XP.
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