I know another NetBeans user who wants off-white / light grey rather than white backgrounds.
He uses the jvi plug-in and uses a light grey background for it, but the rest of the panels are not so easily changed, which is a source of annoyance for him. -- Jess Holle ??(milan) wrote: > yes you got a point, my list is not sorted by relevance, just thoughts > popped out in my mind (and yes, they are very subjective complaints ;) > (I don't want to flame here, I just thought, it would be ok to write > opinion from another side - I don't have to praise nb, or do I?) > > when it takes to look and feel, I think it's quite important, I > usually set fonts a little bit bigger, I don't use default fonts on my > system, I set set up background color in windows/editors to grey, I > think white is too aggressive, if I could choose if would work with > black green terminals(that's maybe why I love editing text files in vi > and fancy console;) > > but netbeans sets all in it's way, white background, small (ugly) > fonts, I probably would be equally productive with nb, if I got used > to it - though, after 5 months I haven't ;( > > why should I spend time with look and feel on my system, when I have > to change it every app. it decides to have it its own way? > > On Nov 12, 7:41 pm, Jess Holle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> John Nilsson wrote: >> >>> Your points are probably valid and there might be a chance to have >>> them addressed if you for each point you stated suggest a concrete >>> change. >>> >>> As it is written now you mainly stated your emotional response with >>> little description of the underlying cause or how to make it better. >>> >>> 6. I lacked(maybe it exists but I didn't find it) functionality, where >>> you can navigate to file in project explorer from source editor. When >>> you have 20 files open from different packages and from different >>> projects, it is easily to get lost. >>> >> This functionality certainly exists. Right mouse -> Select In -> >> Projects [Ctrl-Shift-1] >> >> My favorite complaint has to be #1, the "does not have native look and >> feel", though. >> >> I personally /really /dislike the curvy tabs in Eclipse and various >> look-and-feel choices around them, but overall unless the UI has >> something fundamentally wrong (e.g. giant buttons that gobble all my >> screen real estate or utterly confusing dialogs or UI feedback) I have >> never seen the point in getting so up-tight about look-and-feel, font >> smoothing, etc. Barring such fundamental errors, this stuff is utterly >> subjective and should be utterly irrelevant if the tool does the job. >> If two tools do the job equally well, then sure pick the one that suits >> your look-and-feel fancy (but be ready to switch to another tool to work >> more closely with those who feel differently). If not, then focus on >> how the tools do the job and forget this irrelevant, subjective cruft. >> >> -- >> Jess Holle >> >> P.S. I did loads of development on green or orange screened dumb >> terminals in college. By comparison to this modern IDEs and modern >> screen sizes are a miraculous improvement and thus I generally can't >> complain about them on the basis of look-and-feel. Those who gripe >> about today's IDE's look-and-feels as really impacting their >> productivity or happiness are thus ninnies in my book :-) >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
