[news.eclipse.tools] Re: the mozillafication of eclipse

[Sundar Narasimhan <sundar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > discuss the lessons that Eclipse can learn from Mozilla.  The article is
> > available on my brand-spanking-new weblog, located at:
> >
> > http://ranganath.com/~anoop/
> >
> > Here is an excerpt, which is also the thesis:
> >
> > With all these similarities, Eclipse can definitely learn something from
> > Mozilla. I believe this should be the first lesson: Over the years,

User friendly and expert-unfriendly has been the death of many tools.
Your analogy doesn't work for me because I see mozilla and eclipse as 
targeting entirely different audiences (both in terms of size and 
expertise and activity scope -- creation tools have a substantial 
larger/more challenging set of problems to solve when compared with pure 
viewers (Ok.. I know about mozilla's mail/news, web page editing support 
etc. but the % of users that explore/use them regularly is not very high)).

Now -- my pet peeve of eclipse is that it has not learned from the 
lessons of emacs. Extensibility is a good goal, but you can do it the 
wrong way or the right way. Done right, it should be easy to have emacs 
as my editor within eclipse -- has anyone gone and done that yet?

Should less used functions just fall off.. well XP/Win2K's start menu 
experimented w/ that, and I must say that the lack of predictability 
that implies ..  makes it extremely annoying.

Perhaps you could say specifically about what you find annoying about 
Eclipse.