[news.eclipse.tools] Slow performance on Linux GTK 2.1 M5

["Gunnar Wagenknecht" <g.wagenknecht@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I tried 2.1 M5 this morning on a completly fresh Linux box (Gentoo 1.4rc2,
XFree86 4.2.99.4, Gnome 2.0.3). X and Gnome run really fine and also
accelerated with my Matrox G400 and nice anti-aliased fonts. The machine is
an Intel Pentium III 700 Mhz with 512MB RAM, 80GB harddisk with around 1 GB
swap space.

I installed Sun JDK 1.4.1_01_i586 and Eclipse 2.1 M5 for Linux GTK. The
first thing I noticed is the really slow feedback from Eclipse itself.
Clicking a menu or button takes time.

Examples:

click toolbar icon for "New Project Wizards"
-> around 15 Seconds till wizard choose dialog appears

It's really slow. I can't work as fluent as in Windows. Any ideas what might
cause this? Is it Eclipse? The Sun JDK?

Thanks, Gunnar