Article:		Make Your Swing App Go Native, Part 1
Subject:		Great article but...
Date:		2003-12-09 13:30:37
From:		tommi_kuenneth
First of all, this is a great article. It is important that such topics are covered and the way it has been done is brilliant. Nonetheless may I add a humble "but"? One can read quite often that we should set the look and feel explicitly.And when talking about Swing apps behaving more native it seems nothing but adequate. BUT what if the user does NOT want this? What if the user has explicitly set a different default look and feel using swing properties or command line switch? Because he/she likes Metal? ...or Motif? Or another loadable LAF? Or if there was another version of the Windows LAF which behaves more native than Suns implementation? The conecept of loadable look and feels is a great feature. There soon might be a small editor which helps the user modify swing.properties. Shouldn't we as application developers let the user decide how native he(she wants the app to behave? ...just some humble thoughts. Anyway, please continue the great work! Regards Thomas