Fonts In Java IDEs on Linux

Been playing with the various Java IDEs on Linux. They all suffer from one fundamental problem: questionable fonts.

Take a look at the fonts in NetBeans, Eclipse, IDEA. And compare them to the fonts in Emacs. Why can't Java IDEs use sensible fonts on Linux?

Aside from the ugly fonts, I rank the IDEs as follows:

1. IDEA (10)---By far the most comfortable IDE to use
2. Eclipse (6)---Can do a lot of things but you have to learn every one of them
3. NetBeans (2)---Champion of anti-intuitiveness. Not worth my time to learn it

None can do the one thing that Emacs does best: the TAB key indents the current line.

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on December 3, 2003 12:05:19 AM CST #