I watched the little movie demo and was impressed, so I just installed and tried the Netbeans 6.5 (.sh installer for Linux b/c the Ubuntu repository has 6.1 still) and am really disappointed at how pokey the GUI is?! It's so slow as to be unusable. I'm baffled by this, as I've been using Eclipse PDT (which is a pig) and that also uses Java, but it's nowhere near as slow as Netbeans is.Hi I tried PHPDesigner some time ago. It's not bad but now I'm using Netbeans and it's a good editor: http://www.netbeans.org/ (it's free!)
My system is far from old:
Intel P4 CPU 3.20GHz with 2GB RAM.
java version "1.6.0_10"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_10-b33)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 11.0-b15, mixed mode, sharing)
(also tried with the OpenJDK or whatever it's called, and had the same miserable experience)
I tried to adjust some of the netbeans.conf that I saw in the FAQ to no avail:
netbeans_default_options="-J-client -J-Xverify:none -J-Xmx256m -J-Xss2m -J-Xms32m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=200m -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -J-XX:CompileThreshold=100 -Dswing.aatext=true"
The fonts also looked horrible! All pixeley and like I was back in the 1980's.
I read the forums and searched for "slow" and saw other poor souls with similar experiences, but no solutions.
Oh well... Guess I'll stick with Eclipse PDT (and how does Zend get off charging $400 for "Zend Studio" which amounts to a few Eclipse plugins?!? Seriously? That's $150 at best)
Daevid.
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