I program desktop graphics for a large company (Disney). We develop in
part on Linux and deploy on SGI, but possibly linux in the future.
Elsewhere in the company there are mac clients with sun servers, etc.
My two issues:
1) FONTS. The fonts look different on every platform, and they
only look good on windows. In many cases this destroys the
cross-platform promise of Swing - at best the interfaces look
unprofessional; sometimes we need to have different fonts on
the different platforms (the font that works on one is clipped by
the textbox on the other).
Naively I would have thought that SUN could pay a graphic artist
to develop a "metal" font and bundle this with swing. With so
much of the rest of the font rendering done in java, I might think
that this would give a uniform appearance?
But I know that I'm ignorant of X/truetype/other font rendering issues.
2) Distribute the jre. This isn't so much of a company specific
issue, but I would like to see the jre widely distributed so that
the promise of the java "platform" becomes a reality. Asking users
to download 5megs is asking a lot if they have a modem.
There's been progress on this recently with caldera/turbolinux/etc.,
but RedHat, by far the biggest linux distrib, does not include
anything other than kaffe. But, they include every other computer
language on the planet, and they include StarOffice5.1 (before
openoffice) and other non-GPL apps on their extra's disk. Why can't
they include a jre?
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