Re: weird Create New File/Folder action

Please add your comments to
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=32974
or
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=32983

http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=32985

Thanks,
Jan


John Jullion-Ceccarelli wrote:

> Probably too late to do anything, I know, but...
>
> I was going through the usability test and one thing that may be 
> really frustrating for the users is something that should be pretty 
> simple: creating the text file.
>
> I assume that I'll want to create the text file in the same directory 
> as WordLibrary. But the New submenu on org.toys.lib only shows Java 
> classes, not other templates. The New submenu on the Sources node is 
> also empty. (It should probably be removed.)
>
> So that leaves the New File/Folder command. I open it and select the 
> text template and click next, and I have to specify where to put it. I 
> get This Computer, then I have to remember the path back to my 
> anagrams src directory and drill all the way down through the package 
> directory structure.
>
> Could we do any of the following:
>
> Enable the Text template in the New submenu for packages?
> Enable the Text template in the New submenu for Sources or remove the 
> submenu?
> Have the location page of the New File/Folder wizard start in the 
> project home directory? I know there's no guarantee that's where the 
> source root is, but it's as good a guess as any.
>
> BTW - I noticed that if you create the file/folder outside of the 
> project's source roots, it opens in the Source Editor but does not get 
> added to the project.
>
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