JDK 1.6 (Mustang) Swing GTK Look And Feel Screenshots

JDK 1.6 (AKA Mustang) Swing GTK Look And Feel Screenshots

A few months ago OS NEWS reported that the next version of Java (code name "Mustang") will feature native GTK components for the Swing API. This got us excited since, quite frankly, Swing's GTK look and feel has always been quite dissapointing. We downloaded the latest release candidate of JDK 1.6 to see how well the Swing GTK look and feel looks.

Here are some screenshots of the SwingSet2 demo application included with the JDK 1.6, these were taken on Fedora. As can be seen in the screenshots, Mustang picks up the GNOME theme and renders Swing components appropriately.


Clearlooks Theme




Bluecurve Theme






Crux Theme





Glider Theme