On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:41:38PM +0000, Liam Bedford wrote:
> how do they work under other Window Managers, or under other Desktop
> Environments that don't suck?
Them's fighting words, boy ! From a vi user, too.
> what about other JRE's? We went through:
> IBM
> Sun
> Blackdown
> here for applet support, and each one of them was broken under linux for
> something (buttons not appearing, in the wrong place, etc).
>> KDE + java does seem to work strangely.. konqueror uses kwin a lot to
> make java do the right thing... probably not related?
Is it possible for anything but "Hello, world" to really be a 'Write once,
run anywhere' Java program ? JREs seem to be a disaster area. I own the Perl
CD bookshelf and I'd love to be able to use the supplied search engine but
it's a Java app. and having wasted quite some time already trying to make it
work, I just gave up in despair.
Niall
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