Sometimes I really want to know how Eclipse implements one feature or another, because Eclipse sometimes feels like magic. Usually it turns out they are also just cooking with water. Most open source code is easily available by checking out a project from some SCM. For eclipse it is not as easy. But there is [...]
Recently, Eclipse started ignoring clicks on dialog buttons for me. This seems to be due to some changes in gtk 2.18. It does not use native windows for all widgets anymore, and SWT seems to rely on it. Thanks to this blog post, I have this fix in my bashrc: alias eclipse=”GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true eclipse” The Debian [...]