Release candidate for Substance 5.3

September 14th, 2009 | 7 Comments »

I am extremely pleased today to announce the availability of release candidate for version 5.3 of Substance look-and-feel (code-named Reykjavik). The release notes for version 5.3 contain the detailed information on the contents of this release which include the following:

Click on the button below to launch a signed WebStart application that shows the available Substance features.

The following sub-projects are also available as release candidates:

You are more than welcome to take Substance 5.3RC for a ride and report any problems in the project mailing lists, forums or issue tracker. The final release is scheduled for September 28. Only bugs will be fixed until that date.

Sample screenshots of Substance 5.3 in action:




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7 Comments on “Release candidate for Substance 5.3”

  1. 1 gumshoes said at 12:44 pm on September 17th, 2009:

    Very nice; I look forward to upgrading.
    Related question; what you you recommend as the nicest L&F that consumes the least amount of colors? The intent is to run it on an 8bit display. Thanks.

  2. 2 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 12:49 pm on September 17th, 2009:

    gumshoes – i would imagine Metal with classic theme / Windows with classic theme and Motif use the least amount of colors. As to the “nicest” – that’s subjective and will be part of your design process. All Substance core skins use gradients and may look banded on 8bit display. You can try creating a set of Substance painters that use single (solid) colors and see how that works out on your target hardware.

    Thanks
    Kirill

  3. 3 gumshoes said at 8:10 am on September 18th, 2009:

    Thanks, that is what I figured but it is always worth asking someone who has likely seen them all. Hell, people make windows managers with vi key bindings so there is a chance someone made an 8bit L&F.

  4. 4 Java desktop links of the week, September 21 | Jonathan Giles said at 1:07 pm on September 20th, 2009:

    [...] Grouchnikov has put up a release candidate for Substance 5.3. It is looking very good, but be sure to test it and provide any bug reports you may have before [...]

  5. 5 EJVM said at 2:33 pm on September 21st, 2009:

    Hey Kirill… I didn’t know about your project. Looking fantastic! Congratulations. Tried it under Vista with no probs found at all; will try it on Linux later. Thanks for the great piece of work.

  6. 6 vigge_sWe said at 11:31 am on September 24th, 2009:

    Wow nice.

    Any idea around when it’s gonna be released?

  7. 7 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 11:35 am on September 24th, 2009:

    vigge- have you read the entire post? The release date is explicitly stated in it.

    Thanks
    Kirill