I don't think an new web page would help much.
If you listen to most recurrent critics about Eclipse, all their hate
goes to default Eclipse packaging (available bundles), default
configuration (preferences, perspectives) and missing features (nested
projects) compared to NetBeans or IntelliJ. However, most of them
understand that the community is awesome and that it is easy to get
support and that Eclipse is still the place where a lot of innovation
happens. I never heard someone complaining about the downloads landing page.
So IMO, effort is to be done in providing a good IDE package with an
improved default configuration -eg. remove some useless features such as
CVS, show line numbers by default...-. Effort should be made in
listening more to feedback of users and give more importance to their
requests. How to know what they want? A solution could be to create a
wide-audience survey where people would be able to describe the set of
features they'd like to have enabled by default, and some basic choices
for preferences. With these reports, it would give some clues about how
to make the most relevant packages for the various use-case.
--
Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools>
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