hemju » Nimbus http://www.hemju.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:42:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Nimbus is ready for prime time http://www.hemju.com/2008/08/20/nimbus-is-ready-for-prime-time/ http://www.hemju.com/2008/08/20/nimbus-is-ready-for-prime-time/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:42:26 +0000 Helmut M. Juskewycz http://www.hemju.com/?p=88 Related posts:
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]]> The great new look and feel for Swing applications, Nimbus, is according Jasper’s blog (the ‘father’ of Nimbus) done. I haven’t tried the new version yet, but I am really looking forward to it.

Here a picture from the new look (screenshot is borrowed from Japser :) ) Thank’s Jasper and Nimbus team

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]]> At the JavaDeus Sun promoted OpenSolaris and we got Live CDs of it. I thought about looking at OpenSolaris for quite a while and with the CD in my hands there was no excuse anymore. So, I tried out the live CD and was surprised that the distro handles hardware quite well and OpenSolaris is fast. But now, I don’t want to write about OpenSolaris, instead I want to write about the most visible thing of OpenSolaris: the Nimbus Look&Feel. Wow!

Don’t get me wrong, I always like the Nimbus look. However, I have never thought that Nimbus looks so good for a whole Desktop. The colors look smooth, the look is sexy, and for the first time I really like the Look&Feel of Gnome. The next time I am installing Ubuntu, I will definitely switch from the brown to the cool theme. I would really love to see a Nimbus KDE theme. Here a screenshot, so you know what I am talking about:

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More screenshots can be found here.

Nimbus alone is worth exploring the Live CD.

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