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Aldo Brucale commented on NETBEANS-1344:
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Sorry for the mistake, but I've noticed that in the examples above I have been 
using Oracle JDK 10 instead of OpenJDK 10. 

After this epiphany I've tried to run Netbeans with Oracle JDK 8 and OpenJDK 8 
(on Ubuntu getting two version of Java 10 is currently harder due to package 
issues), and I found that the different rendering quality depends largely on 
the distribution. Here are a couple of examples:

OpenJDK 8: 

!openjdk-8_tree.png!  

Oracle JDK 8: 

!oraclejdk-8_tree.png!

OpenJDK 8:

  !openjdk-8_code.png!

Oracle JDK 8:
!oraclejdk-8_code.png!

> NetBeans looks Ugly on Java 11 on Linux
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NETBEANS-1344
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1344
>             Project: NetBeans
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Laszlo Kishalmi
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: Java11, Linux
>         Attachments: Screenshot from 2018-10-04 09-11-28.png, 
> document_tab.png, image-2018-10-15-20-10-48-233.png, 
> image-2018-10-15-20-11-07-846.png, image-2018-10-15-20-16-27-048.png, 
> image-2018-10-15-20-19-36-959.png, image-2018-10-15-20-19-49-797.png, 
> image-2018-10-15-20-21-15-737.png, image-2018-10-15-20-24-00-937.png, 
> java10_code.png, java10_menu_and_toolbar.png, java10_output_window.png, 
> java10_projects.png, java11_code.png, java11_menu_and_toolbar.png, 
> java11_output_window.png, java11_projects.png, java11opt_code.png, 
> java11opt_menu_and_toolbar.png, java11opt_output_window.png, 
> java11opt_projects.png, openjdk-8_code.png, openjdk-8_tree.png, 
> openjdk-8_tree.png, oraclejdk-8_code.png, oraclejdk-8_tree.png, 
> selected_item.png, toolbar_buttons.png
>
>
> Well actually Java 11 the defaults Gnome3 on Linux, resulting poor rendering 
> on the default GTK look and feel. Using other Look and feel (Nimbus, Darcula) 
> does not suffer from this issue.
>  Forcing to use GTK 2.2 fixes the GTK look and feel.
> To force gnome we need to pass: {{-Djdk.gtk.version=2.2}} to the Java



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