Re:A few glitches in the Linux version... (Score 1)

I think you're reading too much into this...IBMs creation of SWT was a welcome response to sun's lethargy in creating a viable Desktop GUI toolkit. Swing drives me nuts...it's layered on top of awt, one if the worst(the worst if you measure it by quality + importance) apis among the java libraries. It in itself is nothing to behold either. It has a terrible memory and processing profile. And I haven't looked at IntelliJ(though I will since you have mentioned it), but the only Swing application I've ever been able to stomach is JEdit, and I kicked that to the curb like an old hooker when Eclipse came out. SWT _is_ what Swing should be and the fact that the Eclipse developers finally got fed up with waiting around for someone to make Swing _work_ and built their own is something I applaud wholeheartedly.

I do second the comment above about fragmentation, but really, there are so few Java gui apps out there(and among the ones that are, 90% are ides, probably just because if you build your ide in a language other than one it's intended for you will lose credibility), there's really not a market to fragment. My hope is that with SWT, we will start to see some real java desktop gui apps emerge.