Re: Can we make profile editors non-modal?

Sreenivasa Viswanadha wrote:

> 
> In the projects branch, when I do Edit Profile (for Debug profiles), the 
> dialog
> that comes up is modal. Is there a reason for that? I think it will be 
> better if we
> can make it non-modal because potentially a user might have to go to the 
> explorer
> view for getting some information - like classpaths, build targets etc.
> 
> Even otherwise, the semantics of this dialog somehow doesn't dictate it 
> to be
> modal as it doesn't affect anything that the user is currently doing in 
> the IDE.

Sreeni,

according to the latest Projects Infrastructure UI spec at 
http://projects.netbeans.org/uispecs/infrastructure/ProjectsInfrastructureUISpec.html, 
the plan is for the profile customizer to be a part of a "Project 
Customizer", where the user specifies all project configuration data, 
nut only the profiles. I think this is a good decision, as now all 
related data is at the same place, and it is easier to find this.

So the question really is whether the whole Project Customizer dialog 
should be modal or non-modal. I heard that the discussion is already 
happening on this subject. In MPK, I believe Jeri and Jeff N. are the 
drivers, and they have some arguments for making it non-modal. I suggest 
you talk to them, as they are in touch with Chris LeDantec on the side 
of the Projects Infrastructure.

Petr

> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Sreeni.
> 
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