In general, the mouse interaction in the Eclipse GUI is a bit strange on
my machine (Windows 2000 Prof., SP4 German). When I click on the different
buttons on the "Welcome" screen, nothing happens. Tooltips are displayed
when I move the mouse across the icons, but clicking them (also
double-clicking) has no effect.
I noticed almost by chance the faintest hint of a selection rectangle
which seemed to move when I clicked the different symbols, so by hitting
"Enter" e.g. when "Overview" is selected, I can view that topic (it would
be nice if the rectangle were a solid color instead of something almost
invisible...)
But when I do the same on the arrow in the upper right-hand corner to "Go
to the workbench", Eclipse crashes with exit code=1 and a little dialog
with configuration parameters.
I am running the latest Java SDK from Sun (1.4.2-09). My Eclipse version
is 3.1.1 with build ID = M20050929-0840.