NetBeans 5.0 Release Candidate 1 finally released
January 12th, 2006
NetBeans 5 RC1 is out along with the first release candidate of the NetBeans Profiler. The only thing I don’t like about this release—not that I have even used it yet—is the new launch icon. It is this ugly orange box. I definitely prefered the earlier silver icon. I have no idea why they switched, I can only guess that someone at NetBeans.org is on drugs or something. How could anyone think that orange looks better then silver?
Other than that, this should be a great release. I hope that it is found to be basically bug free so they can get the final release out as soon as possible. NetBeans 5 should be the first release that can do battle with Eclipse and IDEA head on without people snickering behind its back.
Categories: Java