Delete Project behavior

Edwin Goei <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.devel,gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I was working on a bug where a project cannot be deleted 
(http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107000) and I'd like to 
propose a change in the meaning of the UI.

When a user deletes a project, the IDE displays a confirmation dialog 
(see attached image). There is a checkbox with the label "Also delete 
sources...". I think a typical user would interpret this to mean "rm -rf 
$projectdir". And I would expect that this is the most common scenario. 
Either that or remove the project from the Projects Window. This is also 
what other IDEs I have used do. I was surprised to learn that in 
NetBeans it means something else and that I had to manually do this some 
other way which I thought was an additional hassle. I think NetBeans is 
trying to be overly careful here and making it difficult for the user to 
do what they really want to do. So the proposal is to change the meaning 
of the checkbox to "rm -rf $projectdir". Any comments?

-Edwin
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