Behrang Saeedzadeh

Screenshot: TextMate Twilight color scheme for NetBeans

Wednesday, 12. November 2008, 03:18:52

Swing, Leopard, OSX, NetBeans, Apple, MacBeans, TextMate, Screenshot, Java, Mac

Plus a leakage of the new MacBeans SlidingButtonUI.

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Comments

Anonymous # 12. November 2008, 08:13

Anonymous writes:

Nice color sheme!

The button UI - I don't know. Way too distracting for my taste. Might be too big a change, but I would try to put everything into one popup button. Either in the bottom bar or within the editor tab bar. Would take too clicks instead of one to restore a window, but it would streamline the whole appearance. And the often used windows have keyboard shortcuts anyway.

http://explodingpixels.wordpress.com/category/mac-widgets-for-java/ provides a toolbar button implementation that works great.

But it's good to see someone trying to improve the visual appearance of NetBeans. I really hope you can come up with something as clean as Coda. Why is the unified toolbar gone?

behrangsa # 13. November 2008, 06:43

For the time being I don't want to change the structure of components. Also it is kind of impossible to make NetBeans look almost exactly like Coda as at the moment there are lots of components that are not customizable with custom look and feels.

As for the Exploding Pixels, I already have it in my newsreader

The SlidingButtons are implemented like standard "recessed" buttons but it is easy to make them look like those "textured" buttons in Exploding Pixel screenshots with the help of client properties: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2007/tn2196.html#BUTTONS

Also at the moment nothing is final. I haven't even released an official release yet and there are some inconsistencies throughout the implementation that will be fixed in future versions.

Anonymous # 20. November 2008, 16:35

Anonymous writes:

That's a great sliding button UI -- way better than what's in NB right now. Where can I get it though? I installed MacBeans, both the prebuild nbm and an nbm I build from the svn's head, but my sliding buttons still have their "normal" chunky look. Is it not yet available?

behrangsa # 20. November 2008, 17:25

@Anonymous

I have implemented an experimental SlidingButtonUI as it can be seen in the screenshots but I have not commited it to the SVN repo yet. I try to commit it by Sunday night. Sorry for the inconvenience

Anonymous # 20. November 2008, 17:50

Chas Emerick writes:

No inconvenience at all. I'm just glad someone with the know-how has taken the initiative. Here's hoping your changes get rolled into NetBeans itself. I know we'll be using it for all of our internal apps.

I see the code is GPL licensed. Any chances of that changing to BSD, CPL, or similar?