IMHO, most critical issue I have seen against CDT on a Linux desktop is
installation.
If you take a typical user friendly Linux distro and install Eclipse
"out of the box", the user will face 4 major issues.
1) Most Linux distros will prioritize GNU as Java VM. Compared to other
VMs, I noted that GNU VM makes Eclipse run slow, consume a large amount
of memory and even crash often. I have lost count of users that where
blaming Eclipse (or CDT) on forums to be too slow and memory wasting,
while the true cause was the GNU VM degrading Eclipse usability.
2) Even worse, these Linux distros do not easy the installation of
quality Java VMs, like those from Sun or IBM. Even more worse, IMHO,
Sun and IBM do not provide packages that make installation easy enough
for desktop users.
3) Most Linux distros provide packages that install a customized
Eclipse thought their own package manager. This customized versions are
compiled with gij and suffer the same performance and memory issues
that I have already mentioned.
4) Once installed, Eclipse GUI inherits the GTK theme from the desktop.
On user friendly distros, font and borders are set to a size that does
not allow a developer to show together editor and project view, even on
a high resolution screen. In this situations, compared to other
development tools, Eclipse looks ugly.
There were several other major issues, but I was very pleased to see
CDT 4.0
solve most of them!
Best regards,
Daniel Ferber
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