Re:JetBrains is working on a cross-platform C++ IDE
by thejosh on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @09:17PM
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I hope that it's not in Java, because their other products for Linux have really bad fonts.
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Re:JetBrains is working on a cross-platform C++ IDE
by ultimoo on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @09:32PM
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True. I have somehow never liked how desktop applications written in Java turn out. I don't know whether it is because they don't use a native windowing toolkit or something else.
Re:JetBrains is working on a cross-platform C++ IDE
by gregschlom on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @09:42PM
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Most Java apps nowadays use the native windowing toolkit. SWT for example (the major gui framework for Java) uses GTK on Linux, Cocoa on OSX and Win32 API on Windows
Re:JetBrains is working on a cross-platform C++ IDE
by pjmlp on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @02:47AM
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Usually the blame is on the developers that don't make use of what Java offers.
There used to be a blog series explaining developers how to take advantage of Swing to make nice UIs. The problem is that most don't care and use whatever is the default.
Re:JetBrains is working on a cross-platform C++ IDE
by BHSPitMonkey on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @12:49AM
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My experience with IntelliJ on Linux is that after a short time spent in the IDE, the software maxes out the OS open files limit (even if you've bumped it up to, say, 4096) and crash horribly (usually blowing away some percentage of the IDE's own configuration each time). Fonts are the least of their problems.