Compact Ubuntu

I've always hated the fact that on Ubuntu with the default themes, there's far too much space wasted. The buttons are too tall, the treeview wastes too much space so that if you're on eclipse or some other ide, you see a precious few items on the screen.

I've been trying to tweak it to no end - even looking to see if there are any ~/.gtkrc-2.0 tweaks. Found a few links such as this Making Eclipse look good on Linux - Max's blog - however, didn't really satisfy my need.

And so it stayed until today when I came across Clearlooks Compact Gnome Theme.

I love it - one more for my list of must-haves!

Production Eclipse Configuration

Part of the game of getting code out that conforms to coding standards without having to go through the "One Big spring cleaning" exercise is configuring and centralizing the tools.

At a minimum, it helps to have a central Eclipse installation that has all the tools configured and setup - so each person doesn't have to do it. Alternatively, there should be a reference set of plugins and their configuration files available in the source control repository.  Here's my eclipse configuration

Tips for using Eclipse

http://www.aspectprogrammer.org/blogs/adrian/2006/02/tips_for_using.html

Great Article - full of very very useful tips!