I am sitting here at Desktop Matters conference which is fab. Now that Nimbus has been announced I can blog on it. Nimbus is a new Look and Feel designed by Sun which is going to be avilable in future versions of Solaris and there are a group of us making a pure Java implementation with the aim of making a modern cross platform look and feel. The aim is for Nimbus to support Java 1.5 and newer and based on Synth as far as possible.Nimbus is going to be a public opensource project at java.net and will be available very shortly. Ben Galbraith has some of the design mockups on his blog.As a taster here are a couple screenshots of SwingSet running Nimbus L&F.
Looks very nice. Thanks for the screenshots (since I don’t have Java 1.6).
Now we have a pleasant look and feel for the SwingSet2 but what’s missing is a nice set of new icons for the toolbar too.
“and based on Synth as far as possible”
I have been tracking some of your problems related to Synth inheritance (at least some of those that you have shared). Now, it seems that a lot of issues related to Synth have been fixed.
Do you recomend Synth for developing a new Swing LAF (with a Flat Style)? Or the old Basic LAF still the best starting point for it?