Extensive L&F modification

Question

I want to use multiple L&Fs in my application, but that makes translating my application very complicated, due to differences between various L&Fs...

So I thought to myself, why don't I download L&F I want to use and then edit them in a way they all have, eg same key for same component name parts, making translating it during runtime far more simple...

It'd like to use, for one, Nimbus L&F, but I don't know where to find the it's source code (or files) that I can edit...

I know it's included in newest Java (which I have, both JRE and SDK), but I just don't know where to find it... Google just keeps showing pages on how to set it...

Answer 1

Well the complete source for the JDK is at the path:

C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.7.0_06\\src.zip

and within that zip the path to nimbus source is:

C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.7.0_06\\src.zip\\javax\\swing\\plaf\\nimbus\\

Of course this is windows only, but *mix systems shouldnt differ in this respective apart from replacing C:\\Program Files\\ with the appropriate corresponding one