General Options
The global options have been added by the JGoodies looks
to let you tweak the font sizes and button dimensions,
which in turn can lead to a better multi-platform appearance
and Windows emulation.
System Fonts
You can specify, whether the look&feel shall use
the fonts used by the operating system.
Font Size Hints
The font size hints help choosing better font sizes.
They are used to modify the size of the menu and/or control font.
Button Margins
This option enables you to use narrow button margins,
that better comply with native widget sets, especially
the Windows widgetry.
You can either switch on this feature globally or
for individual buttons.
Tab Icons
This features enables or disables icons in JTabbedPanes.
Popup Shadows
You can enable or disable drop shadows for popup menus.
As of the Looks 1.3 this feature is enabled on modern
Windows (98/ME/2000/XP) and disabled otherwise.
Note that this feature may be inactive even though it is enabled.
For example drop shadows are always inactive on the Mac OS X,
because this platform already uses native drop shadows.
See also Options#isPopupDropShadowActive().
Plastic Tab Style
Enables you to choose a style for Plastic TabbedPanes,
the default flat Plastic style, vs. the Metal L&F tab style.
Plastic Focus Contrast
Allows you to choose a focus color contrast style: low vs. high.
The low contrast focus colors look good, where the
high contrast focus colors are easier to perceive.