🚀 go-pugleaf

It strikes me as a bit strange that Sun consider a common look and feel
across platforms as a good thing. I can see the advantage to Sun but I would
dispute the advantage to the end user. Any given user is used to a
particular look and fell (Windows, Mac etc). Therefore why should we expect
them to learn a new one just for our Java applications? Very few users would
use multiple platforms let alone the same application on multiple platforms.
It makes much more sense to me to use the look and feel of the local
platform though even this can not be fully achieved just by changing the
PLAF implementation. Obviously there are maintainability issues involved but
should these come above ease of use from the user's point of view?

Ben Starr
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