Re:Zetes: A lightweight cross-platform GUI application frame...
by ptx on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @05:59PM
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Swing does its own font rendering, so the fonts look wrong[0] on every platform.
[0] Where "wrong" means "different from what is expected on the platform" – until we get higher-resolution screens font rendering is a compromise between sharpness and correctness-of-shape; different platforms make different choices; users adjust to the specific choices their platform has made. To observe this in the wild, read any discussion of Safari on Windows.
Ubuntu fonts are great, which Linux are you talking about and is this recent as in the last 5 years experience or is it qualified non-sense on your part?
>> Just look at Intellij IDEA in ubuntu for example.
I have, I'm not impressed overall though on Ubuntu the fonts are fine. I stick with Eclipse because SWT was and is a brilliant idea, the widgets don't just look native, they _are_ native.
That bears repeating, with SWT, the widgets don't just look native, they _ARE_ native.