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[jira] [Updated] (NETBEANS-4495) [Usability] Provide empty project
template / opening existing projects in more unusual languages is very
confusing
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4495?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
ell1e updated NETBEANS-4495:
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Description:
The current new project dialog to me has this odd feel of wanting to 1. making me use some pre-existing template (I don't, I already have a code base, thanks), 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.
was:
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.
> [Usability] Provide empty project template / opening existing projects in more unusual languages is very confusing
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> 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
> Priority: Major
>
> The current new project dialog to me has this odd feel of wanting to 1. making me use some pre-existing template (I don't, I already have a code base, thanks), 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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