On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 08:20:58AM -0800, Robert S. Sfeir wrote: > I use IDEA on Linux, Windows XP and the Mac. So far XP seems to be the > smoothest. I'd rather they focus their efforts on running smoothly on all > 3, I'd rather be on Linux or the OS X, and I don't think 1.4 has anything to > do with it. I would also rather have a JDK that works on all 3 OSes equally > well, and not have the different feels from one OS to the next.
I use both Windows and Linux to do my work. In fact, I use Linux more frequently. Unfortunately, IDEA runs MUCH more slowly on Linux, and thus less smoothly. So I ran it using the 1.4 JDK, and it made a HUGE difference. JDK 1.4 has sped up Swing vastly under X. It is a pleasure to have that kind of speed and smoothness. Unfortunately, keyboard shortcuts don't work with 1.4, so I can't use IDEA that way. I look forward to the day that IDEA will be compatible with 1.4, and I hope it will be soon. > It's funny how sometimes we all have too much of a good thing, we have to > find the little things to nit pick on. IDEA is a very nice piece of > engineering, that's for sure! We are asking for an excellent tool to be made to run even better! While we realize that the developers can't give us everything, we can at least let them know what we would like them to improve, and let them choose what to work on. And there is the added benefit that by working on multiple platforms, I can have my choice of which OS to develop on. I dislike being stuck with Windows, and I'm sure that at least some other people feel the same way. Jared Robinson ---- "It's a well known technology truism that [not] all of the smart people work for you, and that one of the surest ways to success is to get more ideas and more work out of people outside your own fences." - Tim O'Reilly _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
