The rise of the Internet and the Web browser as the universal computing client forced user-interface development and the overall user experience to take a step backwards. Web applications, due to ...

Like many Java programmers, you may have given up on writing client-side window applications. There’s a lot of debate about why client-side Java is out of fashion. But most of it boils down to the ...

When closing some UI elements Eclipse will crash with a segmentation fault at Java_org_eclipse_swt_internal_gtk_OS_G_1OBJECT_1TYPE This appears to be an old bug ...

I have checked bug report database for our product (not Eclipse) and there is a very small amount, but still not zero, of such exceptions in it. I checked 4 of these and all of them were for custom ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

This is a continuation of yesterday's discussion, "Sun ready to join Eclipse, part 1". If you haven't read that one yet, then this one won't make any sense. So go read that one first. Go on, I'll wait ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...