Re: SV: Progress bar UI refresment

Hi all,

I think NB developers concentrate more in shorten the time progress
bars appear, than in make them more fashionable. ;D  Afterall, this is
a L&F matter.

Regards,
--
Lluis Turro
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http://www.turro.org

On 3/30/06, Milan Kubec <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
> >>
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