sap gui for java design

[former_member624584]

Hi guys,

the last few months I learned to work with the sap system (it's an s/4hana) on Windows with SAP GUI for Windows 7.6. Now I have the chance to switch to a macbook pro.
After using the latest SAP GUI for Java I was wondering why this version still has the old design and are there any plans to bring the new design of the Windows version to the Java version?

Are there any plans to provide a native SAP GUI for Mac?

Cheers,
Thorsten

[RMW]

Hello Thorsten,

SAP GUI for Java 7.70 will come with new themes as listed in the screenshot.

There used to be native implementations of SAP GUI for all kind of OSes back in the 90s.

But then there was a decision to join forces with a Java based solution. From the documentation at that time:

SAPGUI for the Java Environment is a unified SAP frontend for multiple platforms (Mac OS X, Win32 and various Unix platforms, including Linux) for SAP Release 4.6 and upwards. The functionality extends the previous native SAPGUI for each platform with the new "EnjoySAP" look&feel as well as the ability to support frontend components (Control-Enabling) with JavaBeans.

Without this Java version, the functional scope would be quite limited and there won't be such themes as seen above.

When you are asking for a native version, what are the benefits you are expecting from it?

Best regards

Rolf-Martin

[former_member624584]

Hi Rolf-Martin,

thanks for explanation.

I did ask for a native version for mac, since the UI of the sap gui for java app is not up to date (see the screenshots below). In my honest opinion it feels and look like an application which was developed many years ago. Which led me to create a win10 vm on the mac (which works surprisingly well) and to use sap gui for windows, even it is not a great solution. I did some screenshots where I think it is pretty obvious what I mean regarding the design.

Another quite tough part was the installation. I had to use the download manager (for some reason I wasn't able to download from the sap site directly) to download sap gui and then only the only java version which worked was the original from oracle (I tried openJava but sap gui for java didn't recognized it and by the installation with brew there was the problem that brew installed java in the wrong directory and hence sap gui didn't find it). Since they updated their licencing model I was quite lucky that my chef had an account.

I was hoping that with a native version for macOS it would be possible to have a modern design like the windows version.

Cheers,
Thorsten

[former_member624584]

Now with the pictures since it didn't accept it in one comment...

[former_member624584]

In the second pair or pictures I'm wondering why the execution button is in windows at the bottom right and at the java version somewhere on the top left.