Re: The screwdriver is back!

Just got another complaint about screwdriver. What's so bad about screwdrivers? 
Interestingly the wrench for not yet built classes in explorer seems to be OK. 
Am I missing something about tools connotations?

Thanks
Hrebejk

Petr Hrebejk wrote:
> Cau,
> 
> I don't know what is more ugly, screwdriver or the green ones. Maybe HIE 
> will come up with something nicer.
> 
> I agree with having the hint, but I disagree that it would help to get 
> rid of the icons.
> 
> 1) If there is not the @Override in the then there would a warning but 
> the warning icon does not show what warning that is.
> 
> 2) Clicking the icon gets you to the super method. Clicking a hint or 
> @Overrides annotation obviously doesn't. Go To super implementation is 
> less discoverable IMO.
> 
> 3) Id the navigation does not work please file a bug.
> 
> Hrebejk
> 
> Jesse Glick wrote:
> 
>> For a while we had overrides/implements icons which were green "O"s 
>> and "I"s, which was easy enough to remember, if not very elegant. Now 
>> we are back to a cleaned-up version of the 5.x icons.
>>
>> http://deadlock.nbextras.org/fisheye/changelog/netbeans/java/editor?cs=MAIN:phrebejk:20070221161628 
>>
>>
>> Why the screwdriver, or whatever it is?
>>
>> For that matter, why do we need two different icons? IMHO we could 
>> just use the "overrides" icon. All I usually care about is knowing 
>> that this method's signature is constrained by some supertype, i.e. 
>> that the @Override annotation could be used. The details are available 
>> in the tooltip if you care anyway.
>>
>> More radical idea: get rid of the override/implements annotations 
>> completely for 1.5+ sources. Instead, add an editor hint to add 
>> @Override to any method which could use it but does not currently have 
>> it. (Jackpot has a transformer like this too.) I would actually find 
>> this more valuable - @Override helps prevent stupid mistakes when 
>> editing supertypes (just as C#'s language keyword does), and once your 
>> code is fully @Override-annotated, you won't need to see the 
>> distracting editor glyph icons any more. "Go to Super Implementation" 
>> would then take care of the navigation aspect of the current 
>> annotations. (Assuming it actually worked - currently it doesn't.)
> 
> 
>> -J.
>>