Comments on: Eclipse/OS X Rant II

By: Steve Northover

Steve Northover — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:02:46 +0000

I can’t help you directly with these Eclipse issues. Please make sure there are bug reports for them.

I think I’m done here (for now). Make sure there are SWT bug reports for the “Further Issues” that still exist in M6 and we can communicate through the bug system.

Until your next rant!

Steve

By: Ken Gilmer

Ken Gilmer — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:02:11 +0000

I tried M6 today. The look is different, I think the blue view/editor border may be too heavy. I had problems with setting breakpoints, intermittent problems with the Package Explorer getting updates when I created files, and the SVN create project wizard is broken. I had to go back to 3.2.2, and was not able to get that far into M6 regarding UI on OS X. Hopefully M7 will be better.

By: Ken Gilmer

Ken Gilmer — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:29:11 +0000

Steve, yes, I’m going to wait for M6 and update accordingly. I had too may issues w/ M5 for general use.

By: Steve Northover

Steve Northover — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:11:50 +0000

Ken

Are you going to update this blog to match Eclipse 3.3 M6? I didn’t look into them this time because I didn’t have much time and saw some that I thought were already fixed. Don’t bother reporting anything against 3.2.1 right now. We are concentrating on 3.3.

Steve

By: Steve Northover

Steve Northover — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:53:38 +0000

Don’t care about the screen shots. Please concentrate on 3.3. We generally only fix critical issues in 3.2.x.

Can you get the latest and update this blog rant?

Steve

By: Ken Gilmer

Ken Gilmer — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:20:41 +0000

Fabian, no, I’ve seen that same problem. I was under the impression (I can’t remember why) that it was an OS X/Java integration issue, rather than an Eclipse one.

Steve,

These screenshots are a mix of 3.2.1 and 3.3 (I2007030313-1051). Next time I will denote versions to make it more straightforward.

By: Steve Northover

Steve Northover — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:24:39 +0000

Good lord, you again!

Please download and try the latest and check the bug system before posting. Some of these issues are bugs that we introduced in 3.3.

The button problem is something we can’t fix (See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=95892)

Keep this great feedback coming!

Steve

By: Lubomir Marinov

Lubomir Marinov — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:15:14 +0000

Re: Toolbar Button Disable Image, I thought you might be interested that it was reported (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=177065) and resolved/fixed.

By: Fabian Steeg

Fabian Steeg — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:45:21 +0000

I agree about the general feeling that there are a few issues with Eclipse on the Mac. However, I feel the ones that are still unresolved in the latest integration builds are minor problems, things that don’t feel optimal, but at least not broken. Except for Bug 129271 (Pasting multiple external resources on Mac OS X pastes only one resource), which makes Eclipse feel sort of buggy when it occurs. This is really a pity in my opinion, given how great and mature Eclipse is overall. On the other hand, I’m starting to think I’m the only one who copies files that way…