Re: Re: Delete Project behavior

On 20 Jun 2007, at 18:47, Jesse Glick wrote:

> 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?

Other issues with delete:

- I forgot why the delete action builds the project (actually cleans  
it) before it deletes it. Seems very strange to me.
- I cannot select and delete multiple projects which can be quite  
common when evaluating IDE and playing with different kinds of projects.

I agree that clarifying what exactly gets deleted would be fine.  
OTOH, I'm not sure the user wants the flexibility you're proposing.  
I'm also thinking about how it would work for deleting multiple  
projects. How about just showing the top level folders? In your  
examples it would be:

[X] /home/jglick/NetBeansProjects/quick-experiment

[X] /home/jglick/NetBeansProjects/jedit
[ ] /sources/jedit/src

[X] /sources/nb_all/contrib/failed-experiment

The last example would never delete the nested project folder. If the  
user wants to delete it, she can do it by opening and deleting the  
project.

-Jano