[Crinus]

This doesn't fix the issue of Swing theming being hard. The fix would be to make it much easier, preferably with a visual editor.

[pjmlp]

You mean like Netbeans Matisse, or more like actually having a designer on the team?

[Crinus]

I was talking about themes, not UI design. Think GTK themes (though not their implementation), not where buttons in a form will go.