Answer by Alex Suter

Alex Suter — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 04:33:34 -0400

On Ubuntu 18.04 i use the icedtea plugin to start ria application from firefox: https://askubuntu.com/questions/18792/how-can-i-view-or-start-java-web-start-applications

Answer by adamf

adamf — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 02:02:26 -0400

Version 6.7.1 works reasonably well. When running from scratch some minor issues occur that do not happen on the windows version:

ivy logger by default only displays warn and error level.
editing HTML view opens a broken HTML wysiwg editor. Double clicking on file, igrnores overriden default editor.

Once I know how to solve this I update my post.

Overall the linux version is great effort and thank you we are not forced to use micro$hrot windows.

Keep up the good work,

Adam

Answer by Reguel Wermelinger

Reguel Wermelinger — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 05:30:43 -0400

Tiny layout for GTK2 based desktops

well aware that modern DE will default to GTK3 this answer is not of interest for many users. But as GTK2 was enforced and recommended up Designer 7.2.0 this answer might still provide insights for some ...

If you have a low resolution you might do not like the large buttons and tree margins. I made the controls look tiny in my environment:

You could get this settings by adding a .gtkrc-2.0 file to your user home directory. The content is as follows:

style "gtkcompact" { 
    font_name="Liberation 8"
    GtkButton::defaultborder={0,0,0,0} 
    GtkButton::defaultoutsideborder={0,0,0,0} 
    GtkButtonBox::childminwidth=0 
    GtkButtonBox::childminheigth=0 
    GtkButtonBox::childinternalpadx=0 
    GtkButtonBox::childinternalpady=0 
    GtkMenu::vertical-padding=0 
    GtkMenuBar::internalpadding=0 
    GtkMenuItem::horizontalpadding=2 
    GtkToolbar::internal-padding=1 
    GtkToolbar::space-size=0 
    GtkOptionMenu::indicatorsize=0 
    GtkOptionMenu::indicatorspacing=0 
    GtkPaned::handlesize=4 
    GtkRange::troughborder=0 
    GtkRange::stepperspacing=0 
    GtkScale::valuespacing=0 
    GtkScrolledWindow::scrollbarspacing=0 
    GtkExpander::expandersize=10 
    GtkExpander::expanderspacing=0 
    GtkTreeView::vertical-separator=0 
    GtkTreeView::horizontal-separator=0 
    GtkTreeView::expander-size=8 
    GtkTreeView::fixed-height-mode=TRUE 
    GtkWidget::focuspadding=1 
    xthickness=2 
    ythickness=2
}

style "null"
{
    engine "pixmap"
    {
        image
        {
            function = BOX
            file = "Null/null.png"
            stretch = TRUE
        }
    }
}

class "GtkWidget" style "gtkcompact"

style "gtkcompactextra" { 
    xthickness=1
    ythickness=1
} 
class "GtkButton" style "gtkcompactextra"
class "GtkToolbar" style "gtkcompactextra"
class "GtkPaned" style "gtkcompactextra"
widget "*swt*toolbar-flat" style "null"

Answers to: How to install and use the Linux Designer

Answer by Alex Suter

Answer by adamf

Answer by Reguel Wermelinger