Your acidic tone was tolerable when you actively contributed to EAP. If
this post is a prelude to your contributing again, welcome back.
Jon
Hani Suleiman wrote:
> The last time I frequented these newsgroups, the word on the street is
> that IDEA 3.0 (backported to OSX) would be available in the September
> timeline.
>
> Now, I just looked back over the most recent postings, and there is no
> mention of any kind of slowdown in new development, or a release date,
> or when the OSX backporting will commence. Annoying, but understandable.
>
> So I regularly try out the latest eap build (650 at time of writing)
> just to see some of the supposed cool features I'm missing out on. Also
> I have kind of an expectation that as builds progress, IDEA improves and
> becomes more stable and usable. I have to say, currently using 629 on my
> OSX laptop is the most comfortable IDEA environment, every single
> successive EAP has been more annoying to use in some respect. A brief
> list of issues (some of which have been fixed, but since my chosen
> platform OSX isn't supported I haven't bothered report them)
>
> 1 - Auto entering of quotes: This can't be disabled, and makes life
> hell. Typing a quote by mistake (' is right next to ; on a US/UK
> keyboard) makes one want to hurl the keyboard at the nearest monitor and
> be done with. I don't understand the timesaving aspects of this at all.
>
> 2 - Editing large files gets slower in every build. I have an EJB
> session bean that is rather large, and with build 650, I sometimes have
> to wait a second for every keypress. Not a lot of fun. Used to be a lot
> faster in 629.
>
> 3 - Still the usual array of internal errors. On one machine copying any
> text from any app causes IDEA to burp up an internal error.
>
> 4 - On the plus side. We now have transparent windows and cool fading
> tool windows. Vital for any serious java developer.
>
> 5 - After building with ant, the ant toolbar window always pops up. Also
> not very enjoyable or needed.
>
> 6 - Various random hangs (better with 650, but still not as reliable as
> <630)
>
> I realise I'm being unfair and not mentioning some of the great new
> features (some, because many of the so called 'great new features' are
> very far from great). I do appreciate encoding aware editing, improved
> (when it works) jsp support, nicer options pages, per project code
> styles, and more intelligent ant file handling.
>
> I apologise for my tone, but it's very frustrating seeing a great IDE
> become so bogged down and annoying to use. Yes, I (and probably many
> other) IDEA users have set a very high bar. Many of you can say 'but
> it's still so much better than everything else', which I would
> wholeheartedly agree with. That isn't the point, I'm unhappy because
> I've seen what the IDEA guys can do, and frankly, the current builds
> don't do them justice, and seem dissapointing compared to the great
> things we've been spoilt with and (sadly) gotten used to.
>
> Hani
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