Re: About Tip of the Day

In one sense, the blogs window is kind of like the tip of the day, but 
with more interesting content :-) having said that the tip of the day 
may be something that we resussitate - we removed it because user 
research said most people weren't using it and we needed room for 
dynamic articles and blogs display in the Welcome Screen.

-J

Serkan Camurcuoglu wrote:
> Hi all,
> In the old days when NetBeans was Forte for Java,
> there was a Tip of the Day dialog that showed up every
> time you started the IDE. It helped me learn very
> useful features which I might not have learnt
> otherwise. Why is this feature removed later? Since
> NetBeans has more features now than it had 5 years
> ago, I guess a tip of the day window could be very
> effective to teach developers small but useful
> features of their IDE.
> 
> What do you think about this, do you think a tip of
> the day windows is needed in NetBeans?
> 
> 
>  
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