I have recently investigated the integration of the Nimbus look and feel. I have committed the Nimbus LaF support to the IzPack Subversion trunk using the latest Nimbus weekly build.
If you launch an installer, it looks pretty good:
… but you will not be able to go much further as it crashes I have tested this on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows with Java 6 with exactly the same problem each time. By the way, Nimbus won’t work (yet) with Java 5 (and of course even less with Java 1.4).
I have reported the issue to the Nimbus project and I hope that they’ll be able to either give workarounds or fix the problem (Romain, are you there? ).
There’s been a lot of Safari3 on Windows bashing lately with people forgeting that this is still a beta. Romain explains in this post why he likes Safari and won’t go into the bashing wagon.
The website of the OpenDocument Formal Alliance which is promoting the use of these open formats. ODF is the main format of OpenOffice.org starting from version 2.0 and above.