Re: why not merge that eclipse-perspective-lookalike and NB3.6-explorer tree ?

On Sep 1, 2004, at 1:10 PM, Peter Buckenleib wrote:

> Hi NB-Community,
>
> i know it's probably too late for the upcoming release, but i really
> can't resist ....
>
> I started with NB3.4 and currently I'm working with NB3.6, and i really
> love it. I had to spend some time using eclipse2.1, and i learned to
> hate it's gui. Now i had some time to check the new NB4.0 and ....
>
> When i imported my current project into NB4 i was almost shocked by
> that flat unstructured endless list of packages that reminded me of the
> ugly "java perspective" of eclipse. Why did you quit that wonderfull
> tree of NB3.6 ?

I guess tastes differ.

The NetBeans 3.x tree drove me nuts!!! I had some deep package 
hierarchies, and this caused two problems:

(a) when trying to navigate I would have to expand tons of "useless" 
empty directories ("com", "company", "project", etc.)
(b) each dir component would cause the files to scroll further to the 
right thus increasing the likelihood of horizontal scrollbars and 
either clipping the left or the right side of the display. E.g. rather 
than
    abc.foo.bar.baz
        MyJavaSourceFile1
        MyJavaSourceFile2
  I had
     abc
         foo
              bar
                   baz
                         MyJavaSourceFile1
                         MyJavaSourceFile2

   (Notice also how the old behavior takes up a lot more vertical space!)

The Java perspective is one of the things I definitely preferred about 
Eclipse. Now that we're getting refactoring, the only other thing I 
miss is the right-hand side navigator in Eclipse, allowing me to 
quickly see (and more importantly jump to) methods in the current file. 
    Yes - I use Tim's navigator module for NetBeans. It should, I mean 
it MUST, MUST I TELL YOU, be integrated in 4.0. I don't see how anyone 
can be productive without it; 3.6 made a huge improvement in the 
ability to jump from file to file with the documents menu window, but 
typically I more often jump between methods in my files and that 
currently requires either scrolling or multiple clicks and drags in the 
editor toolbar combo box.

-- Tor