"P. Ansari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message ah2o6t$j19$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:ah2o6t$j19$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I personally like the idea. The main thing people seem to criticize about > IDEA is the slow GUI. If the plugin used SWT this should speed up IDEA quite > a bit ...
I think you're wrong. With current jdks there's no gui speed problem. The problem with idea is the size of the data it has to handle - having the source code, classpath, libs analyzed and in memory - and the number of simultaneous background threads that give realtime response - error highlighting, current context, etc. This isn't going to change by moving to another gui implementation - if you said moving to a new data model could speed idea I wouldn't disagree, but I think the data model in idea has been redesigned/refactored several times and it seems to work very well fro the amount of data it has to handle. > (and it makes it look more professional to manager-type guys who are > making the purchasing decisions.). Maybe so. Allthough the current interface looks pro enough for me. IMHO, to much pro: All the new color icons on the toolbar and some other places are not obvious and degrade usability. Of course, my manager (me :-) doesn't put much less weight (and even less money:) in the looks than in the feels ;) Nowadays I would buy idea in spite of the new icons, not because of them. Carlos -- Carlos Costa e Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
