Java 6 and KDE integration

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño)]

Java 6 simply doesn't integrate with KDE, but only with gnome...
It reads the gnome settings about style and fonts settings, however there's a way to get this: https://bugs.beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/99435

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

please recheck with current gutsy

[Craig Maloney (craig-decafbad)]

Hi, just checking to see if you've had a chance to confirm this is still the case in Gutsy.

[Craig Maloney (craig-decafbad)]

Hi Marco,

Have you checked Java 6 under KDE with Hardy? I'd be interested to see if the integration has happened yet. Thanks!

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

No, I've not. BTW I'm using recent builds of Java (under feisty) but there's no integration at all without using my script.

[Craig Maloney (craig-decafbad)]

I can confirm it doesn't look right without the patched script. Following the procedure outlined with the script makes a marked improvement.

[Craig Maloney (craig-decafbad)]

Confirming

[Craig Maloney (craig-decafbad)]

Added this bug to upstream.

[Craig Maloney (craig-decafbad)]

Received a note back from upstream:

hurm, some of what that script does can be done simply with configuration changes in the existing .properties files. The only thing I saw which can't is to override awt.toolkit which has to be done via an environment variable (if I read the source right). But for some of the kinds of KDE tweaks you'd want, it's best to work with the AWT team to implement it in AWT. e.g. KDE probably sets it's system wide properties differently than on GNOME and it'd be possible to detect you're in KDE rather than GNOME and query properly for that. I'm going to close this in jdk-distros as will not fix because this isn't a jdk-distros issue. The issue should be redirected to bugs.sun.com or taken to openjdk mailing lists.

Did some checking on the bugs.sun.com site and found this:
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6536584

Appears there is some work to be done on the Java side to make this happen.