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| Summary: | Output window hyperlinks don't work like they used to | ||
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| Product: | platform | Reporter: | mclaassen <mclaassen> |
| Component: | Output Window | Assignee: | t_h <t_h> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | blocker | CC: | misterm, olangr |
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 6.x | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: | |
| Attachments: | Screenshot | ||
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Description
mclaassen
2009-06-17 20:21:48 UTC
Created attachment 83724 [details]
Screenshot
Hi! Thank you for the report. The current behaviour is as designed - the highlighting of the output view has changed in many ways in NB6.7 (at least for Java files - each module can influence the way output is painted). I know that change like this can be unpleasant but current colours are (subjectively speaking) quite easy to get used to. I am closing the issue as WONTFIX (current state is as designed) but if there is too much noise on nbusers regarding this, we will definitely consider enhancements. With regards, Petr Dvorak http://wiki.netbeans.org/PetrDvorak WONTFIX The high contrast of the stack traces in previous version were very helpful. And although I can get "used" to the new colors, I feel like something was taken away with no apparent benefit. If the hyperlink / open window behavior is changing, it would be nice if a (ctrl-click) or something would force it to open in a permanent tab (like a browser would do). I can't stand the way it locks into one editor tab like that. It drives me nuts and I had assumed it was a bug. I really think it should be reevaluated. Some users related to me that this behaviour looks like an bug since is not so easy to identify links as before. Please, if anyone else think it is an worse behaviour, please vote to this issue to get it fixed in the future. Regards I humbly disagree with this assessment. Blue is the almost universal color for hyperlinks. I am not sure what compelled this change, but it seems like it was just a random thing. It makes it less intuitive and different for no apparent reason or benefit. Here is a sample of one of my log messages: Here is the comment I added to: http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=167386 I think it is very relevant here: Here is a sample of one of my custom log message. 01:37:28[00002:04] dsi.joint.io.ApacheDConnection$MyRequestEntity.writeRequest(ApacheDConnection.java:238)Sent data to servlet I opened my project in eclipse and the only underlined part was the part in the parentheses "ApacheDConnection.java:238" This is very nice. It is blue (which indicates a link), and does not create a lot of screen clutter by underlining the entire FQN. I would suggest this model. This would also allow the main color of the text to show more. So if red was desired for stack traces, black for something else, ... the line would be mostly that color. But ALL hyperlinks would be in blue. Hi - please, you have to reopen the issue if you believe it should not be closed! Discussion under closed issues is not very much watched... I have written the explanation of why I closed it: current behavior is as designed, therefore it is not a defect. But you could have reopened the issue as an enhancement - it enhances current behavior... Thanks, regards, Petr D. I agree that blue color is more intuitive for links maybe Ondra could look at it deeper There are two types of hyperlinks in OW - "normal" and "important". Normal (e.g. compilation warnings) hyperlinks are still blue, important (which usually denotes error and autoscrolling stops on them) were changed to red. Important hyperlinks used to be slightly lighter blue than normal hyperlinks. It was hard to distinguish them so they were changed. About how to trate _normal_ and _important_ links is not so easy IMO. Maybe _important_ links should be in normal blue (hyperlink blue) and for _normal_ probably an darker blue. Probably other users could be better opinions :D Now, about tab behaviour, IMHO it should reuse just already opened files and for new files it should open new editors. BTW, an Ctrl + click shortcut would be nice and it should clone the already opened editor and goes to the link position. I don't know how tricky it should be but looks to be the natural behaviour users like to see. OW now supports partial line hyperlinks and multiple colors/hyperlinks on single line. It is possible to distinguish warning/error by color of surrounding text so I changed default colors of both hyperlink types back to blue (core-main #c2da2c80f723). If you want to change how hyperlinks work file an issue against ant/code. |