OK :-).
I can understand the eclipse team regarding the tab look, it's a  
question of habit I guess. Opening Eclipse with the Maclipse  
enhancements was really weird for the first time.
But now, within a couple of hours it just feels ... right. And that's  
a lot to say about an app you've used daily for years.
Cheers,
- Hugi
// Hugi Thordarson
// http://code.karlmenn.is/
On 22.11.2008, at 01:15, Mike Schrag wrote:
>> Mike, your modifications feel really good. Out of curiosity, do you  
>> submit them to the Eclipse folks for integration consideration?
>> (I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm not at all familiar  
>> with how SWT development works).
> I try to log all of the bugs and fixes into the SWT bugzilla.  I  
> submit non-intrusive enhancements (like auto-hiding scrollbars on  
> the Mac) to the SWT team as well.  Unfortunately, the look-and-feel  
> changes require some dramatic changes to controls that are in the  
> "common" set (read: cross platform) and SWT common controls are  
> currently not effectively themeable.  So while I'm perfectly happy  
> to contribute my changes (and I have sent several of the SWT team  
> links to the blog/screenshots), I don't have much hope of seeing  
> this look roll back into the core any time soon.  The other issue is  
> that the SWT team sees the curvy blue tabs as part of the Eclipse  
> cross-platform branding and are not very interested in changing that  
> look (I suspect it has to go through a sort of political design  
> process).  To my eye, the stock look is terribly out of place on the  
> Mac, though.
>
> ms
>
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