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Bug 342257

Summary: Eclipse should not change OS defaults and apply custom look by default
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Dani Megert <daniel_megert>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: emoffatt, gheorghe, Mike_Wilson, pwebster, remy.suen, thatnitind
Version: 4.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard: stalebug
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Description Dani Megert CLA 2011-04-08 06:15:52 EDT 
4.1 M6.

Due shipping a custom look/branding instead of following the SWT-way and be native, Eclipse ends up as ugly beast if the user is not using the same theme on his computer. Even worse: as soon as some dialogs are opened the custom look world is left and I have to deal with two different UIs for the same application (see screen shots). Switching to another Eclipse theme improves things a bit.
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2011-04-08 06:21:07 EDT 
Related:
bug 320901
bug 320238
bug 340889
Comment 2 Dani Megert CLA 2011-04-08 06:33:27 EDT 
Created attachment 192809 [details]
Picture of out of the box look
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2011-04-08 06:34:31 EDT 
Created attachment 192810 [details]
Picture of mixed world
Comment 4 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-11-14 03:08:41 EST 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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