Am Donnerstag, den 15.03.2007, 21:17 -0600 schrieb Charles Curley: Hi Charles. This list is propably wrong for your rant about Eclipse on the Linux Desktop. Please have a look for those issues at: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Linux_Distributions_Project > I'm trying to set up Eclipse 3.2.2 on my laptop. The first problem I > hit is that the locations available for saving extensions are all in > root territory, /usr/share and /usr/lib. So of course as a non-root > user I can't write to them. Is there a location for local storage of > extensions? No, that would be too easy. > Try this one: Download the tar.gz from Eclipse.org, deploy it to a location at your home dir. Start and run Eclipse from there and be happy. > OK, I can add to the list of extension locations. I click on that, and > get a list of directories in my home directory. No .directories show, > e.g. .eclipse, etc. Great. Yes. This is what happens if you run the rpm Version. It is not finished right now. Andrew Overholt does an outstanding job to accomplish his tasks. If you like you can follow this actions in: fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx > I get around this by typing in ".eclipse". Hitting return produces an > error message, but at least now I can return to the file picker and > I'm in the .eclipse directory. Are we having fun yet? Please file a bugzilla report. Either on https://bugzilla.redhat.com or https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/ > I found out later by accident that if you right click in the picker > window, you can turn on "show hidden files". Another intuitive and > obvious GUI feature. Please file a bugzilla report. Either on https://bugzilla.redhat.com or https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/ > There is a description of what Eclipse is looking for in the file > picker. OK, if the people who wrote the file picker know what they > need, why can't the user pick a convenient spot and have Eclipse build > the directory structure? Did someone say, "User friendly"? > Please file a bugzilla report. Either on https://bugzilla.redhat.com or https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/ > So I built the whole tree by hand, selected it, and Eclipse insisted > on restarting. Someone please tell the developers that this is not > Windows. You can do this. You do not know how? Well it is easy. Please file a bugzilla report. Either on https://bugzilla.redhat.com or https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/ > I then started looking for extensions. Again. For each repository, > Eclipse wants to know, again, my preferred mirror. Is there any reason > Eclipse can't salt that information away in a properties file? There is a possibility to let Eclipse Select the Mirrors automatic. > Is everything in Eclipse this brain-damaged user hostile? Is this a > test designed to limit Eclipse users to uber-geeks? No it is not. Eclipse is not ready for a centralized install on a Unix Machine. Eclipse was not Designed to run like this and all this issues get addressed. So either you stop shouting out such brain-damaged stuff and help implementing the features you want, or you just switch over to another Development IDE which fits your needs. -- Stefan Held VI has only 2 Modes: obi unixkiste org The first one is for beeping all the time, IRCNet: Obi_Wan the second destroys the text. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- perl -e'map{print pack c,($|++?1:13)+ord,select$,,$,,$,,$|}split//,ESEL.$/' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG-Keyprint = EAF2 6A65 D102 F2DB 4970 2A67 455B 98F2 572C 3FA9
