Re: SV: Progress bar UI refresment

Milos Kleint wrote:
> your proposal might be nice and everyone could agree that it's better 
> looking, but currently we use the UI that comes with the look and feel 
> if I remember correctly. It's just some tweaking with colors we do. So 
> on macosx, it looks quite macosx like for example.
>
> I don't think we want to create and maintain special UI delegates for 
> the progress bar for all the supported L&Fs. Because as I understood 
> your proposal, it's only about windows L&F (is it XP or classic?)
>

Yes, it's Windows XP L&F. I'm attaching screenshot of progress bar from 
SwingSet running on WinXP L&F and it also looks quite windowish, so it 
must be the tweaking with colors as you mentioned which does that.

  Milan

> just my 2 cents.
>
> Milos
>
> Christian Hessenbruch wrote:
>> I completely agree, and like your proposal.
>>
>> Remember to have a look at Vista progressbar, it's very animated and has
>> a refreshing new look IMHO. It may be over the top for Netbeans look and
>> feel for now though...
>>
>> http://www.nukeation.net/content/binary/v02.jpg
>>
>>
>> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
>> Fra: Milan Kubec [mailto:[email protected]] Sendt: 30. marts 2006 
>> 13:50
>> Til: [email protected]
>> Emne: [nbui] Progress bar UI refresment
>>
>> Hello,
>> when comparing netbeans progress bar to progress bars in other 
>> applications it seems to me that our progress bar deserves some ui 
>> refresment. Compare attached screenshots, they show how progress bars 
>> look in various applications - all of them look better than netbeans one
>>
>> (at least IMO).
>>
>> What do you thing?
>>
>>   Milan
>>