Eclipse Indigo unveiled

New features: slow as hell, random fade-outs and GC thrashing in less than 4Gb RAM, sometimes crashes dead with no warning, no automatic/incremental saving of configuration state or work-in-progress files, intrusive "tasks" UI you don't need or want, knows perfectly well a file has changed but won't refresh it on your behalf.

No wait, those are old features.

I'm dismayed to see that they're calling EGit 1.0 ... there are plenty of bugs that haven't even been looked at that I would call showstoppers. For example, auto-crlf settings are not properly handled (which is a big deal when on a cross-platform team). Actually, the whole config-reading system is just plain broken and has not been improved in several iterations.

"The official release date for Eclipse Indigo is 22 June, 2011. If you are reading this before then, the downloads will still be the preview versions. While they will be largely functional, you'll have to wait to get your hands on the real thing."

does this have an easy way to customize colour schemes? i'm currently battling with intellij idea just because eclipse is unreadable in my "dark background" kde setup (idea used to be pretty good, so maybe i'm just unlucky, but i'm using their python plugin and it won't even run my tests; the fix missed the last release and now seems to be two minor releases out...)