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Bug 40333 - [36cat] Why do we need a "Netbeans IDE 3.x" subfolder for the folder "Netbeans IDE" in the Windows "Start" menu
Summary: [36cat] Why do we need a "Netbeans IDE 3.x" subfolder for the folder "Netbean...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: installer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC Windows ME/2000
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: dlipin
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Reported: 2004-02-20 21:27 UTC by holgerst
Modified: 2007-10-19 11:22 UTC (History)
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Description holgerst 2004-02-20 21:27:40 UTC 
The windows installer creates in the 
windows "Start" menu a folder "Netbeans IDE" in 
which it creates another subfolder "Netbeans IDE 
3.x" which contains the actual icons to start 
the application.

Why do we need both folders?

Can we just move the actual application start 
icons up one level to the main "Netbeans IDE" 
folder and get rid of the subfolder "Netbeans 
IDE 3.x"?

And perhaps to avoid clashes - in the seldom 
case - someone has installed several versions of 
the IDE then call this main folder "Netbeans 
3.x"?
Comment 1 holgerst 2004-02-25 14:21:46 UTC 
Just some additional comments about this issue in comparison with 
other windows application:

Well, when I look at my start menu I see what you mean:
For example, the company folder "Adobe" is on the top level. 
BUT,  directly below this top level you have the application icons 
and NOT again another subfolder.

Ok, there are SOME other companies that do introduce another 
subfolder level for their actual application. BUT, in that case 
usually a lot of icons are created for that one particular 
application.

In the case of Netbeans only three icons are created: The 
actual  "Netbeans IDE 3.x" icon, the "Netbeans Web" icon and 
the "Uninstall  Netbeans" icon. This is not much!

So even if you push the application icons up one level and there are 
two different Netbeans version installed, the result would be five 
icons: "Netbeans IDE 3.x", "Netbeans IDE 3.y", "Netbeans Web", 
"Uninstall "Netbeans 3.x", "Uninstall Netbeans 3.y". And this is till 
manageable amount of icons for one level, isn't it? (Ok, right now 
thee is only "Uninstall Netbeans IDE" and this needed to be changed 
to "Uninstall Netbeans 3.x", but this is a piece of cake to do) That 
should be quite easily doable right?
Comment 2 holgerst 2004-02-25 14:28:46 UTC 
In the proposal from above there would be one top level "Netbeans 
IDE" folder. As stated, this would lead to the possible situation of 
having icons from several icons in one directory. If you had a 
folder "Netbeans IDE 3.x" at the top level then there would be no 
icon clashes either!

But the actual question is: Who besides Netbeans developers has (or 
needs) more than one Netbeans version installed in parallel? In my 
company nobody does. So the problems usually will not arise.
Comment 3 Wendi 2004-02-25 15:23:18 UTC 
I do have NetBeans 3.5.1 and NetBeans 3.6
installed in my machine, for testing purposes,
comparison of the two IDEs and testing how my
new modules behave in one IDE and another.
So for me is useful to have the folder NetBeans IDE
and the two subfolders NetBeans IDE 3.5.1 and
NetBeans IDE 3.6 Beta
Comment 4 holgerst 2004-02-25 15:33:51 UTC 
Dear Wendi, 

I think that you have two versions of Netbeans installed because the 
3.5.1 version is a stable one and the 3.6 is in beta cycle at this 
point. This you do for testing purposes on the IDE itself and the 
modules. But that is excatly what I pointed out above as an 
(presumably) uncommon situation that regular users of Netbeans won't 
have on their machines: In a regular production you have only one 
version installed and this is most likely the latest stable one.

But still, as I mention above too, if you drop the folder 
level "Netbeans IDE" and push the folder "Netbeans IDE x.y.z" one 
level up then you still have the comfortable selection possibility, 
right?
Comment 5 dlipin 2007-10-19 11:22:25 UTC 
Fixed (see the Issue 108948).
Now we`ll have the following structure:
NetBeans > NetBeans IDE 6.0 Build 2007101900
NetBeans > NetBeans IDE 6.0 Build 2007111900
NetBeans > NetBeans IDE 6.0
NetBeans > NetBeans IDE 7.0 M1 (probably:)
NetBeans > NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta (probably:)