[jira] [Created] (NETBEANS-177) Don't enable features per default

["Christian Lenz (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Christian Lenz created NETBEANS-177:
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             Summary: Don't enable features per default
                 Key: NETBEANS-177
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-177
             Project: NetBeans
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: ide - Features On Demand
    Affects Versions: Next
            Reporter: Christian Lenz


If you have a java IDE or a dev IDE, where you don't activated some features that you need for your work like Java, Java EE, HTML, PHP, C/C++ or whatever and you open a file only to look inside the file like an .asm file or .bat or .html or .php file, NetBeans knows the filetype and knows that the feature, that you need for this filetype to handle it correctly, is not enabled,, but a default module in NetBeans. So NetBeans will enables it, which is nice but it should be optional, because it takes some time to enables it.

I can speak from the Visual Studio Code Editor or from WebStorm, if they recognice a feature like you open a .java file or an .md file or .cs file and there is no plugin or module enabled, they show you a message: "We figured out, that there is a plugin/module (could be 3rd-party or default module) which is not enabled yet, do you want to enables it?" This is very handy, because in general VS Code have some syntax highlighting and braces matching for common languages and if not, they know that there is a plugin or for more features.

Which is much much better, so you have the choice, do I want to enable this feature for full and rich feature stuff or do I leave it like this. But NetBeans will never give you the choice.

For default IDE modules like HTML, PHP, Java, C/C++, NetBeans will always activate those features for you. Atm they will not do it for plugins which could be another topic, but it shouldn't. It should give me the choice: Hey dude, you opened a HTML file but you don't use the HTML module, would you? Or smth like that. But no automatically.

I know that it doesn't make sense in that case, that the modules brings the syntax highlighting too and and and, but there is the other case that NetBeans should interact like an editor first, while it should have a common lexer/parser for most of the files out there to have syntax highlighting, braces matching and errors, without the full featured stuff behind. I know that big languages like Java, JS, PHP, C/C++ will not work properly but it should not work properly, if you only want to open a file, look inside of it, nothing more. No code completion, no compiling, no other fancy stuff. Only syntax highlighting, braces matching, errors and some other common stuff.

That will make the IDE faster for starting, because it will not load the fully bloat modules, it will open NetBeans as an editor faster (hopefully). So this is kind of related to this ticket here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-7

NetBeans don't need to have full feature stuff for any language, it should have a common feature set for a lot of filetypes (NBS -> NetBeans scripting, Schliemann).


Cheers

Chris



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