I think it's more the Swing/other toolkit's unique way of rendering things than GTK. Testing a native GTK-2 app (geeqie) doesn't seem to exhibit the problem.
Yes I agree with your terminology. Worth noting though even the font rendering style looks messed up in Netbeans. From what I recall in years gone by that's a Java-specific issue.
I think it's more the Swing/other toolkit's unique way of rendering things than GTK. Testing a native GTK-2 app (geeqie) doesn't seem to exhibit the problem.
Yes I agree with your terminology. Worth noting though even the font rendering style looks messed up in Netbeans. From what I recall in years gone by that's a Java-specific issue.