I'm tired of JButtons, how can I make a nicer GUI in java?

Question

So far I\'ve only built \"small\" graphical applications, using swing and JComponents as I learned at school. Yet I can\'t bear ugly JButtons anymore. I\'ve tried to play wi

Answer 1

Have you at least tried with nimbus look'n'feel? that is a little bit better than the others..

UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel");

only downside is that it requires at least Java6 update 10.