On 04/01/2012 10:05 AM, pk wrote: > On 2012-04-01 13:19, pat wrote: > >> I have experiences with Swing UI and I'll suggest NetBeans. > > I guess I'll go with that. It's just that it wants to pull in around 100 > packages (with only apisupport, ide, java and nb modules)... :-/
Yes, that's a bit of a pain. I install the binary package from here: http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html Running the installer as an ordinary user installs the whole thing in ~/NetBeans and it even updates itself if you want it to.

