Re: Re: Delete Project behavior

Jan Rojcek wrote:
> 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.
isn't this an overkill? i usually use just file manager to delete my 
projects...

stan
>
> -Jano