Summary:

It seems to be a large problem to bring IDEA running smoothly on Linux and 
keeping it running on Mac. If IDEA does not run fine on J2SE 1.4, the Linux 
users have trouble; if IDEA runs on J2SE 1.4 (that seems to imply, that it 
will not run on J2SE 1.3.x any longer), the Mac users come into large(r) 
trouble.

I think, the only solution is to wait, until the Mac version of J2SE 1.4 is 
available. We can bet, that it will be soon.

Tom

PS: I don't run any Swing application on Linux, because I could not get 
them to run in a reasonable way. Independent of IDEA, does someone got J2SE 
1.4 running successfully on SuSE Linux 7.1?


At 11:10 05.04.2002 -0700, you wrote:
>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
>
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