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Right now, rendering hints (for antialiasing, etc.) are configured all over the place in NetBeans. As we can see with the 1.6 mustang situation, this can cause problems when requirements change. Additionally, for 1.6 subpixel antialiasing, it will need to be done via reflection, most likely, until 1.5 is no longer supported - we don't really want that code copied all over the codebase. It would be much preferable to have one static utility method somewhere, i.e. public static void setupAntialiasing (boolean textOnly); that would simply do the Right Thing for the various platforms, etc. Very simple to write. Suggest org.openide.util.Utilities for lack of a better place (though it would be nice to have a place for Swing specific things like this, various fiddling NetBeans does with file choosers, etc.).