[NETBEANS-3746] [FlatLaF] Restartless theme changing for FlatLaF

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: FlatLaf, ide - UI, platform - Options&Settings
• Labels: Look&Feel pull-request-available theme

Environment

Product Version: Apache NetBeans IDE 11.1
Updates: NetBeans IDE is updated to version NetBeans 8.2 Patch 2
Java: 11.0.2; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.2+9-LTS
Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 11.0.2+9-LTS
System: Windows 10 version 10.0 running on amd64; Cp1252; de_DE (nb)
User directory: C:\Users\Chrl\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\11.1
Cache directory: C:\Users\Chrl\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache\11.1

• Assignee: Karl Tauber
• Reporter: Christian Lenz
• Created: 24/Jan/20 16:36
• Updated: 19/Jan/23 16:32

Description

As far as I know, there ia theming option for FlatLaF inside the FlatLaF demo. See my screencapture for more info. So it is possible via JSON to theme the LaF easy and restartless. IntelliJ is doing that and it works like a charm.

The problem of NetBeans changing LaF is you often need to restart, because not all components are repainted correctly. But it seems that theming of FlatLaF is independent from NetBeans.

So it would be nice, if we can switch the FlatLaF theme easy via NetBeans as it is possible in the FlatLaF demo which is located here: https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf

I already asked here: https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf/issues/29

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3523