The original project site is "stale" but still hosted at: https://napkinlaf.sourceforge.net/
If you get the jars release, you will have two jar files (and this README). The smaller one — napkinlaf.jar — is the jar for the Napkin Look and Feel implementation. The larger one — napkinlaf-swingset2.jar — contains both SwingSet2 classes so it can be run as a demo thusly:
java -jar napkinlaf-swingset2.jar
The SwingSet2 code is the one released in JDK 1.5. It has been modified to allow an extensible set of look and feel types, including those with themes, and to fix a couple of places where assumptions were made about how a look and feel works that were not accurate.
You can set the look & feel for Java applications. The Java tutorial [1] describes the standard way to do this. This will work for command line applications.
Changing it for applications that start from a desktop (such as by a double-click) are more difficult to get at; you will have to poke at the configuration for each such application.
[1] Original Link - http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/plaf.html
This page shows how it's done for one application (JetBrain's IntelliJ IDE); maybe this will give you some ideas. It also shows how to make Napkin an installed look & feel.This is released under the BSD license, but we're curious about anyone who does use it. We'd consider it a favor if you'd drop us a note about what you are doing with it and any comments you have.
Peter Goodspeed and Justin Crafford created the sketching subsystem, as a senior project for their degrees at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. They did a great job, and solved an important problem.
And thanks to ... Scott Anderson, a fellow student and friend of mine who suggested they get in touch with me to look for a thesis project.
Scott Violet of Sun has helped me pick apart some of the more abstruse and arcane bits of the PLAF framework, which is full of 'em. Thanks a bunch, Scott,
And thanks to ... Hans Muller, also of Sun, for plugging me together with him.
The font <a href="http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/felttiproman.html">Felt
Tip Roman</a> was created by <b>Mark Simonson</b>, who spent a lot of time
with me on how to license this. He has kindly decided that this particular
use does not require individual licensing for each user of the LAF, but can
be done by special arrangement. The legalities are below, but beyond those
legalities, we'd like to ask you all to be cool — if you like the font
and want to use it, buy it properly. Making fonts is not easy, and font
folks get their work ripped off far too often. If you do want to use it, buy
it from <a href="http://www.ms-studio.com ">his site</a>, where he gets more
from it.
The font <a ref="http://www.aenigmafonts.com/fonts/images/ab/aescfont.gif">Ænigma
Scrawl</a> was created by <b><a href="http://www.aenigmafonts.com/">Brian
Kent</a></b>, and has worked very well for a handwritten font that scales
reasonably to GUI-control sizes (most handwritten-style fonts are display
fonts that only work in large sizes). To make things work better, Brian has
adapted the font to adjust the spacing around some punctuation as well as
some other tweaks. So the version released here is a custom one direct from
the artist (which we believe he expects to roll back into the font at future
date). We would like to thank Brian a lot for his quick and nimble
cooperation, which made this work a lot better and easier on me.
Miro Jurišić has been very helpful in thinking through with me (sometimes for me) some of the hairy graphics problems. This definitely pushes into some poorly documented areas of the 2D API, and it has helped a lot to have someone to talk it through with. Thanks, Miro!
Brian Hawthorne created a quick and excellent selection of blueprint backgrounds for me to choose from. Thanks!
Several people have helped with testing, reporting bugs, and suggesting things. The most persistent have been:
- Deryl Steinert
- Bob Herrmann
- David Matuszek
- Graham Perks
- Henry Story
- Tom Eugelink.
Thanks to all, and we'll be happy to have you be added to this list.