yes you got a point, my list is not sorted by relevance, just thoughts popped out in my mind (and yes, they are very subjective complaints ;) (I don't want to flame here, I just thought, it would be ok to write opinion from another side - I don't have to praise nb, or do I?)
when it takes to look and feel, I think it's quite important, I usually set fonts a little bit bigger, I don't use default fonts on my system, I set set up background color in windows/editors to grey, I think white is too aggressive, if I could choose if would work with black green terminals(that's maybe why I love editing text files in vi and fancy console;) but netbeans sets all in it's way, white background, small (ugly) fonts, I probably would be equally productive with nb, if I got used to it - though, after 5 months I haven't ;( why should I spend time with look and feel on my system, when I have to change it every app. it decides to have it its own way? On Nov 12, 7:41 pm, Jess Holle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 :-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
