Re: Too bright?

Ivan Soleimanipour wrote:
> Wow!
> 
> I brought up NB under 1.5 and had to wear sunglasses.
> 
> I know this isn't a NB thing, but a Swing thing, but still.
> Everything is so white it reminds me of the color-schemes specifically
> desigend for laptops. 
> 
> The pastels of the buttons glyphs get washed out in all this brightness
> Compare them for example to Javasofts own sceenshopts:
> http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/releases/j2se15/15art2.jpg
> 
> Is it just me who's finding al this too bright?

It's just you, Ivan. ;-)  Swing's new Aqua L&F is indeed lighter as 
that's been the trend in new GUIs such as Windows XP and Mac OS/X -- the 
old Java L&F Steel theme was looking old-fashioned.  But if you long for 
the good-old days and want to still use Metal's old Steel theme, add 
"-J-Dswing.metalTheme=steel" to the netbeans_default_options line in 
your NetBeans installation's etc/netbeans.conf file (or 
/etc/netbeans.conf for all installations on your machine).

Tom