Comments on: Modena – new theme for JavaFX 8

By: Philipp

Philipp — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:52:32 +0000

As to my understanding, JavaFX 8 will do native font rendering so it will be up to the operating system to render your fonts pretty (aka properly hinted and antialiased).

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:09:33 +0000

Having a hard time looking at any of those screenshots because the font rendering is so damn awful. I thought nothing was worse than Silverlight, but JavaFX really takes the cake on unreadable text.

By: Jasper Potts

Jasper Potts — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:39:59 +0000

It is because we don’t have native menu bar support for Ubuntu. Please file a JIRA feature request if this is something you need.

By: Valerio

Valerio — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:22:14 +0000

I appreciate so much the great effort made to modernize the java ui style.
Just want to point the attencion on bar charts: rounded, and colors are too aggressive. I prefer No rounded bars (to stick with the minimal style) and more pastel colors like the ones in line charts.

By: Philipp

Philipp — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:10:08 +0000

I could not agree more. This is a huge improvement over Caspian and very pleasant to the eye. Personally I think it would look even better with some small adjustments:

1. Buttons (and rows in lists, tables, etc.) are a bit too high. Too fat buttons don’t look good
2. Albeit the reddish-orange focus color looks nice to the grey of the controls, it does not go that well with the blue selection color. Either go completely blue or completely orange. Or use the selection colour of the operating system.
3. Fonts are too large. That’s 13pt? How about 12pt or 11pt? I hope that one day sub pixel font rendering wil be supported. Then those fonts will look crisp and sharp. And: The kerning might use some improvements, too.
4. Corners might benefit from a smaller radius. Too round does not look too good

Having said that, Modena surprised me very much and I really hope you guys keep up the excellent work. I love that it’s brighter, flatter and less 3D-ish than Caspian. Can’t wait for proper font rendering, too

Cheers

By: Mo Chicharro

Mo Chicharro — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:08:11 +0000

I agree, it’s a thorn in our side at the moment. As a designer, I want to see it fixed asap – rest assured we are working on it!

By: Anatoliy

Anatoliy — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:33:24 +0000

Anyone else see that poor font rendering kills any good attempts in JavaFx?

By: m1k0

m1k0 — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:24:37 +0000

Why ubuntu has menu bar? Please fix it by removing this menu like in mac.

By: Steve Thackery

Steve Thackery — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:43:40 +0000

Very nice work! I’m going to be boring and just add my +1 to what’s been said already: the corners on the progress bar are too rounded.

By the way, why is the text kerning on the Mac versions wrong? I see it’s wrong in the Caspian screenshots, too.

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