On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:34:40PM +0100, David Given wrote:
> Hey, it's not *that* big. This 3.0 installation is only 75MB.

# apt-get install eclipse-sdk
...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  classpath-common-unzipped eclipse-javac eclipse-jdt eclipse-pde
  eclipse-platform eclipse-sdk eclipse-source jamvm junit libeclipse-jni
  liblucene-java
Need to get 64.5MB of archives.
After unpacking 91.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

I don't have that much in /usr.

> I'm not sure my lua skills are up to that. Also, I'm not entirely sure where 
> ion's debugging information is going...

The code is C.

> What seems to happen is that you end up with 
> the dialogue floating in the middle of the toplevel, the dialogue being the 
> size of the *last* dialogue that got displayed... or worse; frequently I've 
> ended up with 1x1 unresizeable windows and have only gotten out because I 
> know what keys to press.
>
> Incidentally, this happens regardless of whether I'm on a floating or paned 
> workspace.

Hmm... I wonder if Eclipse is setting maximum size hints on the windows,
and then asking to make the windows bigger than those size hints. Ion will
not allow that.

> Is there a kludge to tell ion to ignore the program-specified maximum size? 

Yes,
http://iki.fi/tuomov/ion/doc/ionconf/node4.html#SECTION00443000000000000000


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Tuomo

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