My first muCommander customization (JGoodies L&F)

[alejandroscandroli]

I love JGoodies Looks and they are very easy to integrate.
Just download JGoodies Looks from http://www.jgoodies.com/downloads/libraries.html
Copy the looks library to your lib folder.
And finally add this line to the bottom of the Launcher.java main method. (patch)

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UIManager.installLookAndFeel("PlasticXPLookAndFeel", PlasticXPLookAndFeel.class.getName());


And... Voila!
Now you can choose PlasticXPLookAndFeel from the L&F dialog.
I know it's not a big contribution, but it looks GREAT.
Here is an screenshot of mucommander running with JGoodies Looks on ubuntu.



Saludos.
Alejandro.

[Nicolas]

Hey Alejandros,

Thanks for the great feedback :)

I'll look into making your patch a bit more generic - allowing users to specify custom look&feels through the UI and loading them dynamically at startup. It shouldn't be too hard, but I'll be on holidays and computer-less for the next week and a half, so it might not happen just yet. I'll keep you posted.

Nicolas

[Nicolas]

Hey Alejandro,

Just a quick note to let you know that it's now possible to import look&feels in muCommander through the Preferences / Appearance panel.

Please note that this is still an experimental feature and that not all look&feels out of the dozen I've tried will work out of the box - a few of them do some rather naughty things to Swing and don't take kindly to being changed. However, in your case, it should work just fine: I tested it with JGoodies and this appears to work just fine.

Enjoy :)

Nicolas

[alejandroscandroli]

Excellent!!!!!
It's working very well, thanks Nicolas.

[Nicolas]

Glad you like it :)

Have a look at: http://napkinlaf.sourceforge.net/. It's barely usable, but it looks really nice with muCommander.

Nicolas