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As a Linux user the biggest turn-off thing for me is the horrible font rendering of Swing applications on Linux. This has kept me from using JetBrains products

As a Linux user the biggest turn-off thing for me is the horrible font rendering of Swing applications on Linux. This has kept me from using JetBrains products and Netbeans altogether.

afsina 15y ago
it looks pretty decent on Ubuntux64. Can you show an example?
- afsina 15y ago
  I have an example from the Java IDE IntelliJ Idea from same company (PyCharm uses the same framework): http://img130.imageshack.us/i/screenshot6gw.png/ http://img130.imageshack.us/i/screenshot6gw.png/ Does it look bad?
  - dimmuborgir 15y ago
    That's the maximum I could come up with after trying many suggestions. Still ugly for me. May be my eyes are sensitive but observe w, v and x. They're faded out. Also most letters look choppy for my eyes. I can't stare for long.
limmeau 15y ago
Depending on a lot of version numbers, you may have to pass -Dswing.aatext=true -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on to your JVM. I don't know why the default is "ugly 1990s-style", but those settings made Netbeans usable for me (for long enough to discover I still prefer Eclipse, except for the profiler).
- gojomo 15y ago
  Trying Oracle's JDK often helps with such things, as well.
- afsina 15y ago
  AFAIK There is a setting in editor->Appearance->Use Anti Aliased Fonts and, as other commenter said Oracle JRE may have better font rendering than Open JDK.
- nek4life 15y ago
  On OS X you can add apple.awt.rendering = quality to the info.plist properties section in the .app Contents folder and it seems to make the fonts a little smoother as well.
theBaba 15y ago
I've found that using the "Nimbus" look and feel (Settings -> IDE Settings -> Appearance) and making sure "Use anti-aliased font" is checked (Settings -> IDE Settings -> Editor -> Appearance) do pretty well. I am using an Oracle 1.6 Java on Ubuntu 10.10. PyCharm and IntelliJ also seem to default to an "Alloy" look and feel on Windows, but changing that to the native Windows L&F vastly improves both the fonts and general appearance.

As a Linux user the biggest turn-off thing for me is the horrible font rendering of Swing applications on Linux. This has kept me from using JetBrains products and Netbeans altogether.

afsina 15y ago

it looks pretty decent on Ubuntux64. Can you show an example?

afsina 15y ago
I have an example from the Java IDE IntelliJ Idea from same company (PyCharm uses the same framework): http://img130.imageshack.us/i/screenshot6gw.png/ http://img130.imageshack.us/i/screenshot6gw.png/ Does it look bad?
- dimmuborgir 15y ago
  That's the maximum I could come up with after trying many suggestions. Still ugly for me. May be my eyes are sensitive but observe w, v and x. They're faded out. Also most letters look choppy for my eyes. I can't stare for long.

limmeau 15y ago

Depending on a lot of version numbers, you may have to pass -Dswing.aatext=true -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on to your JVM. I don't know why the default is "ugly 1990s-style", but those settings made Netbeans usable for me (for long enough to discover I still prefer Eclipse, except for the profiler).

gojomo 15y ago
Trying Oracle's JDK often helps with such things, as well.
afsina 15y ago
AFAIK There is a setting in editor->Appearance->Use Anti Aliased Fonts and, as other commenter said Oracle JRE may have better font rendering than Open JDK.
nek4life 15y ago
On OS X you can add apple.awt.rendering = quality to the info.plist properties section in the .app Contents folder and it seems to make the fonts a little smoother as well.

theBaba 15y ago

I've found that using the "Nimbus" look and feel (Settings -> IDE Settings -> Appearance) and making sure "Use anti-aliased font" is checked (Settings -> IDE Settings -> Editor -> Appearance) do pretty well. I am using an Oracle 1.6 Java on Ubuntu 10.10. PyCharm and IntelliJ also seem to default to an "Alloy" look and feel on Windows, but changing that to the native Windows L&F vastly improves both the fonts and general appearance.