Dark L&F and Notifications

Peter Hansson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.openide.devel
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In my RCP application I'm working with a dark L&F. Seems so popular these
days.

The problem I have is with the standard Notifications, the little things in
the lower right hand of the main frame that comes up as a balloon
notification: The clickable text is just too hard (if not impossible) to
read on a dark background because it is hardcoded to Color.BLUE.

I'm thinking that all implementers of a dark'ish L&F must have come across
this.

The problem is with NotificationImpl in core.ui. If you look into the
source you'll see that the clickable text isn't actually a link but is
simply some underlined text (<html><u>) inside a JButton and then the
implementation does :

btn.setForeground(Color.blue);

Ouch!

So the color is hardcoded.

How to solve ?

Thanks

Peter
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