Re: Features brainstorming

Vincent Brabant <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:50:05 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.tasklist.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jesse Glick a écrit :
> Minor inline comments:
> 
> Petr Kuzel wrote:
> 
>> What particular suggestions do you use most often?
> 
> 
> PMD and Javadoc.
> 
>> It looks like suggestions view is flickering. Still Jesse prefers the
>> live view over scanned one. Besides how would you like live
>> suggestions view for all opened documents?
> 
> 
> Might be nice, but I am mainly interested in the document I am editing 
> right now. If I delete a block of code that was the last user of an 
> import statement, I want to soon see that the import can be removed. If 
> I start typing something that is in bad style, I want to know that soon, 
> so I can correct it, before I do it again.

+1 for me. The first feedback must concern what you are really doing now.
> 
> At least this is what I have found after using Suggestions for a while 
> in everyday coding. I'm not using it at the moment because it seems the 
> latest version on AU always has some P1-P2 bug (sometimes fixed in CVS 
> but I'm too lazy to build it).
> 
> If there is a good way to browse through suggestions without there being 
> a suggestions view open, and with the feature being unobtrusive but 
> visible, that would be great; but I am not sure quite how it would work.
> 
>>> Would prefer having the option to get rid of most of the GUI stuff
>>> in Suggestions window (even the table header); takes up too much
>>> space, and is all available in the context menu anyway. Just want
>>> to see type icons, messages, and line numbers, nothing else.
>>
>>
>> You are power users! Novice would never discover even minimal features 
>> with this approach.
> 
> 
> Of course - only suggesting the option to turn off these things and 
> leave them in a context menu, not making that the default. (Try using a 
> 1024x768 screen for a few days and you will see what I mean!)
> 
> -J.
> 


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