Swing Font Rasterizer

Hello,
as you probably know Swings font rasterizer is a huge problem, when 
you're running Java applications on a notebook or PC with a LCD screen. 
This of course is not the only flaw Swing has but it is a significant 
one that can not be fixed without Suns help.

Several bugs and RFEs have been submitted dating 2002 and nothing 
happened. So how does this relate to Netbeans. The usage scenarios of NB 
are very text driven. Although I like NB alot it is quite unusable on my 
notebook because of this issue. I have made two screenshot comparing the 
Eclipse(native) an N(Swing) font rendering. Although the native font 
rendering look a bit strange, when magnified it improves readability 
significantly on LCDs.

http://home.cs.tum.edu/~gersmann/netbeans.jpg (antialiasing enabled)
http://home.cs.tum.edu/~gersmann/eclipse.jpg

The technique that has to be applied here is called subpixel hinting and 
supported by every major plattform ecxept Java (and Solaris if that 
counts as a major plattform). A lot of people have no other choice than 
using Eclipse instead. This is also a big problem for Java application 
developers who are moving to .NET and SWT.

My question is if someone knows if Sun is aware of this problem and 
going to fix it and if there is maybe someone out there in the position 
to put some pressure on the Swing team to fix this serious issue that 
applies to the whole Desktop Java community?

Regards,
S. Gersmann