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Original Post: I've been playing with IntelliJ IDEA 5.1 for the last day or so.
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I've been playing with IntelliJ IDEA 5.1 for the last day or so. It seems OK, less buggy than NetBeans and no stranger or buggier than Eclipse. I wouldn't exactly call it a model of good user interface design though. There are lots of little glitches, such as menu bars that disappear when certain windows are open, omitted menu shortcut keys, menu items that bring up dialogs but don't end in ..., a non-native busy cursor, Mac OS 9 file dialogs, application exiting when I close the last window, outdated screen shots in the Help files, a Windows menu that doesn't keep a list of open windows, and can someone please explain to me why I have to save a color scheme before changing the default font? More...