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Is there a way to make NetBeans look better? IntelliJ looks so much better than NetBeans or Eclipse

• eirikbakke 4y ago
  There's been a lot of cosmetic improvements in NetBeans in the last few releases, including this latest one. In particular, a while back the default look & feel was switched to FlatLAF ( https://www.formdev.com/flatlaf/ https://www.formdev.com/flatlaf/ ), and before that again we did a lot of work to support HiDPI and Retina screens ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/HiDPI+%28Retina%29+improvements https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/HiDPI+%... ). In NetBeans 15 we did a series of tweaks to further improve the look of the UI (e.g. https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/4286 https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/4286 ).
• stefanos82 4y ago
  You mean something like this? https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/netbeans-look-and-feel-plugin-using-darcula-of-intellij-idea/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/netbeans-look-and-feel-plugin-...
  • dvdkon 4y ago
    There's also a FlatLaf plugin, actually very close to IntelliJ in looks.
• qsort 4y ago
  I guess it comes down to personal taste, but the Jetbrains IDEs don't look great either. It's pretty far down my list of priorities and I'm a happy customer regardless, but they're all kinda ugly, very Java fat client-ish. It's not even the non-native look and feel (what even is a native GUI these days?), VSCode somehow looks better.