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Eclipsed used SWT which produced actual native controls. Swing controls are not native but look and feel native.

I haven't used Eclipse in a decade, so maybe it's changed, but back then it was very much a Java UI, not a native feeling one.

I remember the Java UI, but at some point they switched to a version of Swing that made it look more native, at least on Linux.

Eclipse uses SWT which uses real native controls.

Of course Linux doesn't have native controls - I think it uses GTK on Linux.

It used SWT, which was a thin wrapper over native controls.

Ahh yes that's right.