On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess that's why there are users perfer to use "ugly" IDE like netbeans > rather than a good looking Anjuta.
If everyone keeps repeating the "Netbeans is ugly" line, does it make it true? Less complete than this hypothetical new IDE that is yet to be written. ;) Frankly, I know PHP devs using Netbeans, Java ones and now I've seen people on Twitter talking about its Javascript support. So why do all these devs choose a "supposedly ugly" IDE?. Maybe it's not so ugly and maybe it's got useful features. And it's also Open Source so why not collaborate with it?. I'd love to see the Gnome developer community engaged with it. I think it's got a good, mature code base evolved over the last 11+years , and its code base is flexible to allow it to support C, PHP, Java, Javascript, and more langs through plug-ins (Jython, Jruby, Scala, etc). The point I'm trying to make is that "because it's Java" or "because it's Swing" shouldn't make any difference. If you think some dialog doesn't look nice in the GTK+ Java Look And Feel, then it's a bug, and it'd be nice if you could contribute to fix that. Since most linux distros now come with OpenJDK7, (a project where RedHat, IBM, Twitter, SAP, and AMD are collaborators) which was made the reference implementation of JDK 7 by Oracle... why not create this Gnome IDE atop the Netbeans platform?. It'd only make sense. It could be a "Netbeans Gnome edition", that just does Gnome apps... Well, just an idea. FC PS: Don't even think I'm criticizing Gnome devs, I've seen the "re-invent the wheel" approach happen too many times in many other projects. I wish projects would cross-polinize each other. I wish Google had reused Mozilla Gecko (or at least Necko). I wish Google Docs had been built atop the OpenOffice ODF parsers. And so on... ... I guess I'm getting old. ;) -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
