While we applaud the effort to bring a more functional designer under Eclipse, what we have today is a slow, bug-laden, unusable product that is tripling the amount of time to make even simple changes to agents.The load time is abhorrent, and the window focus problems turn routing design tasks into guessing games, just trying to find the design element we need to work on.
Please give us a plain old Windows UI option until you can get these kinks worked out. The Eclipse version is killing our productivity.
Subject: The current (not yet publically available) betas of 8.5.1 are way faster
And, if you do any significant work in Java or Lotusscript, once you have seen them, most likely you will agree that you never want to go back. (have you been to the right Lotusphere labs or one of the Lotusphere comes to you - or In case you are German, maybe at entwicklercamp.de last week?)
Subject: Agree. DDE is a hog…
…and the screen redraws are driving me mad.
If you are not designing XPages you can add
UseBasicNotes=1
to your notes.ini.
That will affect your Notes client too but at least you will have a usable Designer client.
Subject: I just downgraded to 8.0.2 + fixes