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Bug 136243

Summary: Dummy project node in the Projects view
Product: ide Reporter: Petr Dvorak <joshis>
Component: CodeAssignee: issues@ide <issues>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED    
Severity: blocker CC: mmirilovic
Priority: P1    
Version: 6.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description Petr Dvorak 2008-06-02 10:19:21 UTC 
I think that the logical way the NB works with projects and files is currently not sufficient. If you want to create
just a file, you need to do it inside a project and this is not very flexible.

Suppose this situation: You are a system admin and you are looking for some friendly editor for your shell-scripts (and
you are not a vi-freak). So you decide to download the Netbeans IDE. But soon you realize you are unable to edit an "sh"
files. Why? You need a project. But there is no appropriate project for sh files - so you can just create a fake java
application, for example, and then place an sh file in this project.

I was just thinking, that maybe it would be nice to have a "dummy project" node called "Unsorted files" (for example)
where a user could create a files of any (appropriate) kind (java, sh, xml, cpp, ...).

(I think it is quite crucial - NB is the only IDE I need, except I had to do these funny workarounds).
Comment 1 Marian Mirilovic 2008-07-10 14:16:58 UTC 
You can use Favorites window in such (to be honest) not so realistic cases ;)
Comment 2 Petr Dvorak 2008-07-10 21:38:04 UTC 
:o)

I see... I have never really used this "Favorites" window, as it is not enabled by default - I will look at it a bit...

Verified.

(I have tested this in 6.1 - it was ok to use Favorites for this purpose. But I was unable to create a file in 6.5M1+DEV
for some reason, the dialog where you fill in the name never showed up - see issue 139647...)