On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Daevid Vincent <daevid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 10:32 +0000, Holografix wrote: > > 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!) > > 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. > > 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. [image: :(] > > 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. > http://www.daevid.com <http://daevid.com> > > I've installed it but have yet to use it. I am having a good time with APTANA Studio, though there is a learning curve -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
