A good generic IDE, for Gnome and Windows

JustHalf

I want a good generic IDE. I want it to have solid CVS and Subversion integration. I want it work cross-platform. And I want it do to look something like this:



I'll detail exactly what I mean now.

The text editor box is just a text editor. Any text editor will do (except Emacs). If it has auto-code highlighting, then all the better (especially for Perl, HTML, CSS, C++ and Java).

The light gray bar up the top is space for a toolbar.

Solid CVS and Subversion support
This is the most important feature. That "file" browser box? That's actually browsing your CVS of Subversion repository. You click on a file there, it automatically checks out the file. When you save the file, the program forces you to log your change and commits the write to the repository.

You should be able to add new files to the repository by dragging the file into that box. Other operations, such as delete, make new directory, etc; these should be done through the GUI.

When you double click a file, the app should know what is text-based and what isn't. For example, if the file is a picture, it shouldn't open the file in the text editor. It would be nice if it gave you a thumbnail in the edit box, but this isn't crucial.

What's the message / alert box for?
Any CVS or Subversion messages get put here.

I'd really like if this IDE could be connected to build tools fairly easily. I'd like to be able to click a "Build project" button, and for everything to get checked out and built. It would be even sweeter if build messages are put in a seperate tab.

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So, does anyone know of one? Or do I need to write one myself?

JustHalf

Oh, and it needs to be piss easy to start a new "project" (a new CVS branch / repository / whatever). In a "Click - Type - Click - Done" kind of way.

bambam

http://www.eclipse.org/ - a generic IDE - functionaltity is added by plugins, of which there are many

phobos

I highly recommend eclipse also. I've been using it for about 18 months. Though it's primarily a java based app, parts of it are platform dependant, and subsequently there is a Win32/Linux/etc, distributions available. I use it on both Win2K and Linux on a daily basis, and it performs well on either platform.

Plugins for practically everthing are available here.

One other thing, a final release of 3.0 is just around the corner. I myself am using 2.1.2 at the moment.

;-phobos-)

Enygma

I've been using IntelliJ IDEA which I think is the bees knees and is somewhat like what you describe only it's a Java IDE rather than Perl/PHP/ASP etc.

Might take a look at Eclipse next week though. I was well impressed the last time I looked which was about a year ago.

Typedef

Kdevelop and the XWindows port for win32.

Or you could try Dev-C++, but, I'm not sure what the status of the Linux support is and it's a while since I used it, so, unless it's been added I don't think CVS is supported, but, I guess the easiest way for you to answer that question is to check.

Enygma

Took a look at Eclipse this week, very nice indeed!
Also noticed this project on sourceforge which is Eclipse with support for PHP and Python and more.

http://www.xored.com