Wow I'm not alone! Last night I decided to give NetBeans 6.5 on Linux and was doing great until I decided to import files into my project. First, I needed to leave my project view and go into files view in order to add a folder. Second, right-clicking on the directory didn't give me the option of importing files into that directory. The File menu didn't even give me that option. After 30 minutes, I gave up and used my trusty terminal. So much for an IDE.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Steven Herod <[email protected]>wrote: > > I've used Netbeans exclusively as my IDE for Rails, Grails and JavaFX > coding for the past few months on Mac. > > It has its quirks in regard to the registration issue, and often seems > to consume a great deal of CPU, but since I haven't had a particularly > good experience with Eclipse either and lack the $$$ to shell out for > IntelliJ, its all roundabouts and swings as far as I'm concerned. > > Across the board quality of IDE's gets me down, by the time you string > a few plugins together I seem to spend time chasing ghosts or engaging > in "right click, left click, open, close, refresh, restart, do work" > semi-superstitious usage patterns. > > > On Jan 31, 9:43 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > > Even after the obscure segmentation fault I mentioned in another > > thread, netbeans is unusable on mac os x. I don't understand why the > > posse sings netbeans' praises so, especially considering that most of > > them have macs. > > > > here's a list of things that bugged the hell out of me in the first 2 > > minutes: > > > > - the install isn't mac-like. It creates a directory in /Applications > > and then puts in a single .app file in there. Why not just dump this > > in /Applications directly? That's what every other mac app does. Not a > > show stopper, but shows lack of trying on the mac platform. > > > > - Nothing is remembered. Everytime I boot netbeans, it'll ask me to > > register. I can click 'never register' until I'm blue in the face. No > > luck. This is a show stopper. > > > > - hg isn't shipped with mac os x, and it isn't in netbeans either. > > Why not? It's open source. Python's already there, at least on os x > > leopard, so it can't be that hard. Even if you do install hg, netbeans > > can't find it. You have to manually go to the terminal, create > > a .MacOSX dir in your home file, and then an environment.plist, add / > > usr/local/bin there, and *LOG IN AGAIN*. Even technical users > > shouldn't be subjected to that kind of abuse. > > > > When your product takes over an hour to get working properly, you're > > doing it wrong. > > > > Verdict: Netbeans on mac is a toy project. Use if you are the type of > > person that likes to write their own XF86Config files. Which, if you > > own a mac, probably means nobody. > > > > Come on guys. These problems can't be all that hard to solve, and I > > really want netbeans to succeed. > > > -- Eric Angel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
