Eclipse Ganymede on Leopard: First Impression
I just installed Eclipse Ganymede on Leopard, and within minutes noticed weird screen artifacts and GUI problems. The welcome page had these big tooltips that were always chopped off. I’d show a picture here, but I can’t figure out how to get back to that page.
I then tried installing the Terracotta plugin, and eventually see this screen:
Although no plugin apears, it really is there…somewhere behind the broken GUI. I clicked next and proceeded through the installation successfully.
Other Eclipse screens show similar screen artifacts. For example, check out the weird blue button at the end of the Description field:
That is a real button…you can click on it, but I’m not sure what it does.
Do these Eclipse Ganymede problems exist on other platforms? Will porting SWT to Cocoa fix these artifacts?
Hello,
yes, first glitch with empty ‘Install’ screen exists on Windows too. It happens only sometimes, maybe it has to do something with number of installed plugins at once.
That’s just one problem! I had a bunch of other problems with Ganymede and was disappointed overall with this release. Here’s my full review
http://reverttoconsole.com/archives/197
BTW, there is at least one change that we know of in the Eclipse 3.4 APIs that broke the Terracotta plugin. There will likely be a fix coming in an upcoming release. We may also remove our current dependence on PDE, but that’s to be determined.
That’s just one problem! I had a bunch of other problems with Ganymede and was disappointed overall with this release. Here’s my full review
http://reverttoconsole.com/2008/06/eclipse-34-ganymede-review-bloated-and-dissappointing/
Under Windows you get back the Welcome-Screen via Help > Welcome
Also using Mac OS X. No problems for me so far.
I’m using the new Dropins folder. I downloaded oXygen 9.3, unzipped it and dropped it in. When I ran eclipse I got a spinning beachball for abut 15 seconds (I suppose while it detected and registered oXygen as a new plugin) and then everything ran fine.
I think I’m just going to start using that mechanism so I don’t have deal with the Software Update UI. That should make clean installs less painful.
By the way, the Terracotta trunk nightly plugins now provide an Eclipse 3.4-compatible version and the upcoming 2.7 release fixes that issue.
I also tried running Ganymede on OS X Leopard and encountered numerous random problems, most notably SWT giving Errors and crashing quite randomly. Also Subversive gave strange errors on some updates, but still seemed to manage to perform them. To actually get work done, I had to switch back to Eclipse Europa - I’m happy I didn’t upgrade without test-driving Ganymede first.
I really hope these problems are going to be fixed soon. I hear Ganymede’s notably faster than Europa on Windows.