Re: Delete Project behavior

[BTW please do not cross-post to multiple lists. nbui is the right list, 
I think.]

Edwin Goei wrote:
> So the proposal is to change the meaning of the checkbox to "rm -rf $projectdir".

I agree that if you ask to delete a project, you probably intend to 
delete the whole project directory. I am always being surprised by 
Delete Project leaving all kinds of things around for no apparent 
reason. And the "also delete sources" checkbox has always mystified me. 
I asked to delete the project. A project is an IDE's way of managing 
program sources. What am I being asked, exactly?

Let me propose a completely different UI that I think would be much 
clearer. The dialog would contain a forest (list of trees) which would 
look a bit like the Files tab if just that project were open. Each root 
corresponds to one top-level directory and is labelled with the full 
path to that dir. For projects made from scratch there would be just one 
root; for projects from existing sources you would often have one entry 
for the NB metadata and one for the existing sources.

The trees would be checkbox trees, i.e. each node can have states 
checked (delete entirely), unchecked (leave alone), half-checked (look 
at children to see which parts will be deleted).

By default, the project directory (parent dir of nbproject) would be 
checked, except that any nested project directories would be unchecked. 
External source roots would by default be unchecked.

Ignorable dirs (build, nbproject/private, ...) would always be deleted 
and would not be displayed at all.

Examples:

[X] /home/jglick/NetBeansProjects/quick-experiment
     [X] nbproject
     [X] src
     [X] test
     [X] build.xml

[X] /home/jglick/NetBeansProjects/jedit
     [X] nbproject
     [X] build.xml
[ ] /sources/jedit/src
     [ ] org

[/] /sources/nb_all/contrib/failed-experiment
     [X] nbproject
     [X] src
     [X] release
     [X] build.xml
     [X] manifest.mf
     [ ] another-module

-J.

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