I'm not entirely sure, but isn't the eclipse UI done in SWT so the  
library is separate for each platform, hence looks like whatever the  
host is?

John

On 27 Jun 2005, at 17:59, Tom Loredo wrote:

>
> Mathieu wrote:
>
>
>> I use eclipse for my daily job, so pydev is a goode news.
>> eclipse works fine with CVS and subversion, and its visual diff is  
>> nice.
>> I didn't try debugging python with this tools, but syntax  
>> coloring, code
>> navigation (function, class ...), code completion are very nice.
>> Debbuging seems to work (http://pydev.sourceforge.net/debug.html),  
>> i'll
>> try it later. I don't use debugger often i'd rather use crash report.
>> Eclipse is a very cute cross plateform developpement tool with nice
>> java, php and python support.
>>
>
> This pretty much echoes my own experience.  I use Eclipse+PyDev on
> an old 333 MHz G3 laptop and a Quicksilver G4 desktop.  It's slow
> to start (about 30s on both machines), but once it's up it runs
> just fine.  I've only been using it for a few weeks but I'm pretty
> close to hooked.  I did take a brief look at Wing IDE and was
> impressed.  But what attracts me to Eclipse is that I'm working
> on projects with C and Fortran extensions.  My understanding is
> that other Eclipse plugins (e.g. Photran for Fortran) will let
> me work with those files within Eclipse as well.  And I'll be
> able to also work on HTML & JavaScript in support of these
> projects in the same IDE.  (I hasten to add that I haven't tried
> any of this yet.)  I need to do this on both Mac and
> Linux (FC3) machines.  The only other environment I found that
> offers this combination of both cross-platform and cross-language
> support is JEdit (with appropriate plugins).  I tried JEdit
> for a while, but Eclipse's latest incarnations are much more
> Mac-like on the Mac and Linux-like on my FC3 box, probably
> because Eclipse uses custom GUI tools, rather than relying
> on Java's standard GUI tools.
>
> I have also tried Eclispe+TruStudio Foundation.  While TruStudio
> looks promising, they have a ways to go (their editor plugin
> doesn't even correctly handle indentation).  It's a 1.0
> release, but I'd say that designation is premature.  But
> it's probably worth keeping an eye on TruStudio.
>
> -Tom Loredo
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