Things are a little better...

[kickaha]

Eclipse? Your UI still reeks of bad X apps that are trying to be Windows clones.

But Mylar makes you usable.

Not pretty, but usable. Basically, Mylar is what I was expecting the baseline Eclipse to be like.

I feel like this is actually a functional tool now.


Now if they'd just integrate that patch for the reparenting on MacOS X bug that was submitted in *2005*, things would be good. As it is, I can break the UI into overlapping windows on XP, and have crappy window management, but can't do so on MacOS X, where the window management is actually good. Grr.

Here's hoping for 3.3.

Update! No, of course the overlapping windows aren't *actually* helpful... they're just essentially palettes that insist on floating on top of the main workspace NO MATTER WHAT. *headdesk*

I swear to god I'm going to start mailing copies of UI design texts to the Eclipse teams. They're *SO CLOSE* and yet... so *so* far.

Comments

[meiow.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Good tip - I'll check Mylar out.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Do. It took me about 10 minutes to get comfy with it, and another 20 to feel like it had radically changed how I use Eclipse.

[ashears.livejournal.com]

geek.


;)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

OMG, does it *show*?

;)