[jira] [Created] (NETBEANS-4495) [Usability] Provide empty project template / opening existing projects in more unusual languages is very confusing

["ell1e (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

ell1e created NETBEANS-4495:
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             Summary: [Usability] Provide empty project template / opening existing projects in more unusual languages is very confusing
                 Key: NETBEANS-4495
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4495
             Project: NetBeans
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: projects - Generic Projects UI
    Affects Versions: 12.0
            Reporter: ell1e


The current project dialog to me has this odd feel of wanting to 1. making me use some pre-existing template, and 2. making me use one of the few languages or things to write that NetBeans somehow thinks are what I should be coding in. This approach seems to work  somewhat directly against the recent merging of LSP support for letting people just code what and however they want, and against people who may want to use NetBeans for more obscure things in particular.

I get that for Code Insight, you may want to know what type of project the user is working on. However the current rigid limited  template list has a tendency to breaks down in corner cases, even if you ignore LSP/obscure languages: e,g, many languages might be mixed in one project, making anything like "Java Project" or whatever a bad match anyway.

Therefore, I suggest the top entry in the new project dialog should be a "Generic Category" with an "Empty Project" entry.

If the given option is already present and I missed it I apologize for this unnecessary ticket.



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