The JavaOne conference 2006 homepage states that technical sessions will be notified by the 14th of January about their acceptance. Has anyone received his notification yet, or is the process running a bit late? There hasn't been anything said about it in the blogosphere.

I always found it extremely important to have my source code look 'perfect'. Everything that needs to, has to align properly and the adopted coding style has to be used consistently throughout the whole project.

I've been using X-develop (and CodeGuide before) as my main IDE for many years now and I really like the productivity I get from it. However, since Eclipse is currently the most used IDE amongst the users of RIFE, and X-develop's plug-in interface focuses mainly on language editing features (no GUI integration of plugin components), I've been trying to get used to Eclipse.

It took me a couple of weeks to feel really comfortable, but then I ran into a very annoying bug that manifests itself on MacOSX, Linux and Windows: sans-serif monospaced fonts don't align properly! It turns out that this has been a known bug for almost two and a half years, and its status hasn't even been changed from NEW to something else!

The result is that many first tabs in my source code are only one pixel wide, causing the whole alignment to be screwed. If you introduce additional tabs to make up for it, the alignment will be wrong in all the other editors out there.

Maybe most developers find this a very minor issue, but it my book, displaying, editing and aligning text properly should be the firstmost important feature of an IDE. Text is what you look at the whole day!

The fact that an issue like this has never been attended to in such a long time really makes me wonder if the focus of the Eclipse project is totally wrong. What use is it to have incredibly advanced features, when a fundamental thing like text display is not even handled properly. I voted for the issue and commented on it, so I hope some Eclipse developer will pick this up and fix it. I doubt it will happen though.