Re: Re: Delete Project behavior

Hi,

Too complex, I'd say. What about this?

1.- The user selects the "Delete project" menu item.
2.- A confirmation dialog appears, presenting the following options:

     Delete Project will delete all
     files under /home/whatever/myproject.

     Are you sure you want to do this?

     [Yes] [No] [Select files to delete]

3.1.- If the user clicks "Yes" files are deleted
3.2.- If the user selects "no" no files are deleted, and
3.3.- If the user selects "Select files to delete" then a new dialog box 
appears, asking the user for confirmation on what to delete (using the 
component Jesse has explained).

Cheers,
Antonio


Jesse Glick wrote:
> [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.
>