John Nilsson wrote:
> Your points are probably valid and there might be a chance to have 
> them addressed if you for each point you stated suggest a concrete 
> change.
>
> As it is written now you mainly stated your emotional response with 
> little description of the underlying cause or how to make it better.
>
>     6. I lacked(maybe it exists but I didn't find it) functionality, where
>     you can navigate to file in project explorer from source editor. When
>     you have 20 files open from different packages and from different
>     projects, it is easily to get lost.
>
This functionality certainly exists.  Right mouse -> Select In -> 
Projects [Ctrl-Shift-1]

My favorite complaint has to be #1, the "does not have native look and 
feel", though.

I personally /really /dislike the curvy tabs in Eclipse and various 
look-and-feel choices around them, but overall unless the UI has 
something fundamentally wrong (e.g. giant buttons that gobble all my 
screen real estate or utterly confusing dialogs or UI feedback) I have 
never seen the point in getting so up-tight about look-and-feel, font 
smoothing, etc.  Barring such fundamental errors, this stuff is utterly 
subjective and should be utterly irrelevant if the tool does the job.  
If two tools do the job equally well, then sure pick the one that suits 
your look-and-feel fancy (but be ready to switch to another tool to work 
more closely with those who feel differently).  If not, then focus on 
how the tools do the job and forget this irrelevant, subjective cruft.

--
Jess Holle

P.S. I did loads of development on green or orange screened dumb 
terminals in college.  By comparison to this modern IDEs and modern 
screen sizes are a miraculous improvement and thus I generally can't 
complain about them on the basis of look-and-feel.  Those who gripe 
about today's IDE's look-and-feels as really impacting their 
productivity or happiness are thus ninnies in my book :-)


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