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Re:Apple and the future of Java by St-Clock on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @06:50AM (#1833704)
Font rendering is horrible (at least on linux), you have to try various l&f before finding one that is "acceptable", etc.

It's a great IDE, general usability is certainly better than Eclipse (it was meant to be an IDE as opposed to Eclipse which is a platform with an IDE built on top), but personally, font rendering was a deal break.

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Re:Apple and the future of Java by michaelneale on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @06:47PM (#1836465)
Thankfully that bit is fine on a mac. And really - that is 90% of it there - the rest is a distraction.

Their icons are, well, tasteless is the best way to describe them.

I know people don't often talk about usability and developer tools - but it really really matters. You spend a LOT of time on it - may as well fuss over it and make it right. IDEA gets so much right.... and this is also a good example of when user experience can be great, but design (graphic) not so great.

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