JDK-6625814 : All Deployment native Dialogs should take native windows look and feel.
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: deploy
  • Sub-Component: deployment_toolkit
  • Affected Version: 6u10
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
  • OS: windows,windows_vista
  • CPU: x86
  • Submitted: 2007-11-05
  • Updated: 2010-04-04
  • Resolved: 2009-07-11
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-6639622 - Addiional Bundle Download Dialog on and off shows Vista look and Feel on Vista.
Relates :  
JDK-6359035 - Apply WinXP visual styles to AWT native dialogs
Relates :  
JDK-6636001 - UI problems in kernel native dialogs.
Description
Addinal Component Dialog should take native look and feel. The progress bar look and feel is very odd (and bad) compared to windows XP/ Vista progress bar look and feel.

There are multiple things here. 
- Additional Component Dialog doesnt have any professional look ( needs to improve)
- Additional Compoenent Dialog should take native look and feel. ( progress bar should be automatically covered) 
- Images looking blurred need high quality Sun brand images.
Look and feel applies to all native Deployment Dialogs.
(treating other bugs in kernel dialogs as a seperate bug)
Comments
EVALUATION pretty much all the dialog shown by webstart and new plugin are implemented in Java closing as will not fix.
11-07-2009
EVALUATION I am splitting this off from the from the other bugs in the kernel dialogs, because we should not add manifest to jkernel.dll to create native look and feel without doing the same thing to jinstall, ssv, and the dt dialogs. (all other native deployment dialogs).
30-11-2007
EVALUATION As far as I understand, the dialog being discussed is a native Win32 dialog. By default, on WinXP and Vista all the components look like Win2K components, which is indeed very ugly. To enable WinXP/Vista L&F, an application must use a special manifest file, either by linking it as a resource or by placing into the same folder as the executive. AWT group has recently integrated the similar change into JDK7, see 6359035 for details about manifest file and all other required changes. After this fix all the AWT native dialogs (print, page, file) now look according to the current WinXP/Vista theme.
06-11-2007