File menu gone ?

Svata Dedic <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.projects.devel
Organization CollabNet Hosting
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello, all,

It seems that the change is probably intentional, but I was quite
surprised when I did not see "File" menu as the first item in the main
menu bar; instead of that, there was "Project" menu (sources from 
18/4/2003).

Especially some of its items looked very funny:
* Project > Exit
* Project > Save: it does save the file being edited, however.
* Project > Save All: but it saves files from all projects
* Project > Print: Operates on the current file, not a project
* Project > Print Setup: heh, this is ALWAYS in File menu, isn't it ?

While Save All operates on everything (not stricly on an [active] 
Project), but some actions operate on the active project (Project > New 
 > Resource, Project > New > Build Target).

Even worse - items in the Project > New menu are mixed from 2 conceptual 
levels: projects / project group, which work with Workplace and build 
target / resource - artifacts that live and are created within (the 
active) project.

It took me a while of thinking what will New > Resource do and where it
will place the new resource :-\

I took a ride through IntelliJ, Microsoft Visual Studio 6/.NET and 
Eclipse. Although they are all project oriented and Eclipse and MSVC 
even show multiple projects at a time, none of the teams was bold enough 
to remove "File" menu and indicate there are no "file operations".

So - why was "File" menu was removed ? I can't seem to find reasons 
strong enough for such a novel approach to menu contents.

-Svata
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