I’ll be posting miscellaneous notes related to Desktop Matters on here from time-to-time. This time: Chet Haase’s slides were a little garbled on the conference CD so he’s posted them on-line on his blog. Jasper Potts has posted screenshots of SwingSet2 running an alpha build of Nimbus. Richard Bair has created links to a nightly […]
Desktop Matters: Final Wrap-up
I take away a number of great memories from Desktop Matters 2007. Among them: Seeing many attendees work directly with members of the Swing team to show off their stuff and get help. Watching Richard Bair of SwingLabs and Mike Swingler of Apple’s Swing team sitting together to work on some OS X / Swing […]
Desktop Matters Day Two: Second Half
I only summarized until around 11:30 am on Friday in my last blog entry on DM, and we kept on going until around 9:30 pm. As one attendee put it, “This is the most intense conference I have ever been to.” That was not entirely a compliment; perhaps I packed things in a little too […]
Desktop Matters Day Two, Including JIDE Announcements
Its been a busy — an informative — day so far at Desktop Matters. Jasper Potts started out the day with a demo of the state of Nimbus so far; he’s got quite a bit of it implemented, but a ton of work remains. We chatting a bit about the state of frameworks in Swing, […]
Desktop Matters: Announcing Nimbus
NOTE: Check out this newer blog entry for more details on Nimbus and for easier-to-see screenshots. At least a year ago, perhaps longer, some of my friends at Sun showed me the designs for a custom look Sun had designed for the Java Desktop System called Nimbus. At the time I was advocating that Sun […]
Desktop Matters Day One Wrap-up
In addition to Richard’s talk, Chet Haase and Hans Muller gave a great talk summarizing the state of Swing and its near future. Big take-aways for me from their talk was that Sun is really energized about solving a lot of the problems we’ve started to take for granted as being part of Java desktop […]
Desktop Matters Day One: Richard Bair on SwingLabs
Richard Bair, the SwingLabs Lead, updated us on the state of SwingLabs. Dev Packs Richard announced a SwingLabs Dev Pack concept. The idea is that includes all of the stable good stuff from SwingLabs in a way that can be used for production. They are planning that the packs will work for 1.5, 1.6, and […]
Desktop Matters Day One: Keynote
Desktop Matters has kicked off today; I’ll put up some blog entries with interesting notes from the various talks. The conference started with a keynote that I delivered with Dion. We addressed six reasons why we think the Java desktop platform matters, and announced a new cross-platform look-and-feel called Nimbus that will probably ship in […]
Ben Galbraith 