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Bug 151870

Summary: Shorten New File wizards
Product: platform Reporter: jrojcek <jrojcek>
Component: Window SystemAssignee: issues@platform <issues>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: blocker CC: markiewb
Priority: P3 Keywords: PLAN, UI
Version: 6.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Attachments: Proposal for a plain file creation.

Description jrojcek 2008-10-30 14:56:57 UTC 
Currently to create a New File, the user needs to go through the template selection step, which is slow. In many cases it would be enough to type a file 
extension into a name field and NetBeans should determine what kind of file it is. E.g. typing "MyClass.java" clearly means the user wants to create a Java file. 
Similarly "index.html" means an html file.

See the original problem description written by Pavel Buzek:
http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewEmptyFile

I would suggest a slightly different approach for solution. See the attached screenshot.
Comment 1 jrojcek 2008-10-30 14:58:03 UTC 
Created attachment 72915 [details]
Proposal for a plain file creation.
Comment 2 jrojcek 2008-10-30 14:58:52 UTC 
This issue is related to issue # 151868.
Comment 3 jrojcek 2008-10-30 15:00:20 UTC 
I'll file a separate issue for New Project wizards.