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		Aeolun on Jan 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML My problem with the default Swing theme, and any theme in Java at the time, was that they were so ridiculously ugly compared to the system default. It wasn’t exactly easy to make your own theme either. Something that HTML allows without almost without thinking.

kaba0 on Jan 28, 2021 [–]

Yeah, I agree. But Swing has some cool themes nowadays. (And JavaFX is pretty easy to theme, but I have not yet tried it extensively)

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