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swing.properties should be in /etc, so the Java Look and Feel can be changed

Bug #229112 reported by Richard Laager
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Bug Description

I'd like to see a symlink from that path to /etc/java-6-sun/swing.properties (or some other way to make the JRE honor that path) so that I can set this in /etc (where settings belong) instead of in /usr/lib/jvm/...

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Changed in sun-java6:
status: Unknown → New
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arno_b (arno.b) wrote :

I do not agree: as Java developer I can say that the gtk+ laf still has a lot of bugs on Linux, and Sun does not seem to be very quick to fix them.

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Carlos Correia (carlos-m16e) wrote :

I don't agree either... I'm a KDE user ;-)

Anyway, I do prefer the default Java L&F. And it's not difficult to change :)

Matthias Klose (doko)
Changed in sun-java6:
status: New → Won't Fix
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Richard Laager (rlaager) wrote :

Since this was closed without comment, I'm going to assume the objection was the same as those already voiced: to changing the default L&F. So, let's try again with the second part of the request.

description: updated
Changed in sun-java6:
status: Won't Fix → New
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resplin (resplin) wrote :

I think the request in the new description makes a lot of sense (though it probably would have been better as a new bug report).

The user should be able to change the default look and feel be editing something in /etc. There are already a number of java properties files in /etc/java-6-sun that allow manipulation of other configuration settings.

As a work-around, I created /etc/java-6-sun/swing.properties with the swing.defaultlaf setting, and symlinked it to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/jre/lib. For anyone getting here via Google, the correct value for Nimbus is:
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel
(beware though, it can cause Null Pointer Exceptions, see http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6800801)

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Changed in sun-java6 (Debian):
status: New → Confirmed
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Changed in sun-java6 (Debian):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Changed in sun-java6 (Debian):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Is this fixed now in Ubuntu?

Changed in sun-java6 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Richard Laager (rlaager)
Changed in sun-java6 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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