Aesthetics apart, every developer should change the default Look and Feel of NetBeans. Why? because it has an annoying bug. Here’s what happens: you’re pumping code in the NetBeans code editor like crazy. You need to switch to another window for a quick copy / paste from your eternal library of super code. You press ALT + TAB, you go to your other window, you press CTRL + C, you press ALT + TAB, you’re in NetBeans again getting ready to kick your paste operation using CTRL + V… but… but… you’re no longer editing the code! You’re now navigating the menu! ANNOYING! SHOW STOPPER!
Luckily, it turns out this is a bug in the Windows Look and Feel of Java (Which NetBeans uses by default). Time to change it of course. Read on.
Note: I’m running NetBeans IDE 6.7.1 under Windows XP SP3 / Java SDK 1.6. If you have a different version, this bug might not manifest (Lucky you!).
ALT + TAB switching to/from netbeans on Windows
http://forums.netbeans.org/topic5465.html
NetBeans substance look and feel plugin (Project’s home page)
http://kenai.com/projects/nbsubstance/pages/Home
NetBeans IDE – Look and Feel
http://netbeanside61.blogspot.com/2008/05/netbeans-ide-look-and-feel.html
JTattoo
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