Re:IntelliJ IDEA 11 is Out
by viraptor on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @06:57PM
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I like the editor itself, code completion and scala support in IDEA, but that's about it. The UX is almost as bad as Eclipse's. Once you stop for a moment to look at it, it's almost ridiculously bad.
Give it a go: in your project right-click "External libraries". What would you expect? Something like "add new one", "manage", "copy from..."? No such luck - this is what you get instead.
- refactor, add to favourites (expands but all options inactive)
- local history (never active, not what you'd imagine)
- various file operations (for "collections" of external libraries?)
- update copyright (active, but seems to be a noop)
Ah - you actually wanted to manage the external libraries? Try right-clicking the module, "open module settings" (how about "settings"?), "libraries" / "global libraries" (there's no mention of "external libraries"). And that's just one trivial issue that every single user of idea will see fairly frequently. IDEA is full of them.
Give it a go: in your project right-click "External libraries". What would you expect? Something like "add new one", "manage", "copy from..."? No such luck - this is what you get instead.
- new (always inactive)
- cut, copy (always inactive)
- find / replace in path / analyze / reformat / optimize imports / compile (for external libraries? seriously?)
- refactor, add to favourites (expands but all options inactive)
- local history (never active, not what you'd imagine)
- various file operations (for "collections" of external libraries?)
- update copyright (active, but seems to be a noop)
Ah - you actually wanted to manage the external libraries? Try right-clicking the module, "open module settings" (how about "settings"?), "libraries" / "global libraries" (there's no mention of "external libraries"). And that's just one trivial issue that every single user of idea will see fairly frequently. IDEA is full of them.