Look and Feel in LC8

[Richard Gaskin]

Roger Guay wrote:

 > I didn’t even know it was a property! I never used it as a delivery
 > mechanism, but rather as an early or preliminary detection/indication
 > in developing for other platforms. Thanks for the plugin in, Richard.

I hope you enjoy it, but I would caution against using the lookAndFeel 
for anything other than nostalgia:  for many years the appearances it 
emulates bared ever less resemblance to their modern counterparts, and 
with modern OS X, Windows 8.1 through 10, and the wonderful Gnome Shell, 
Unity, and KDE desktops for Linux, nothing in the modern world bears any 
resemblance to the yesteryear appearances emulated with LC's lookAndFeel 
property.

In fact, I think that for everything from font metrics to control shapes 
you'll find greater consistency among the native themes for all three 
desktop platforms than between any of them and any of the older emulated 
appearances.

But -

If you're looking to provide something that looks like NeXT, making 
everything gun-metal gray and setting the lookAndFeel to Motif does a 
pretty good job. :)

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