Bug 20133

I propose two changes to the proposal:

1. Use Control-N shortcut for the context insensitive "New File..."
instead of the context sensitive New.

I see 2 reasons:
- Creating New File is much more common in the IDE
- Context insensitive shortcut is generally more intuitive (i.e. the
meaning is clear regardless of the context)

2. Do not Allow 
File
	New File...
	New File... Ctrl-N


In this case there should really be only one command 
"New File... Ctrl-N"

As to where the mnemonic goes, here is the part of the discussion
where we decided that the mnemonic goes on the context-sensitive one:

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=245359&listName=nbui

The basic rational is that a user could select a node such as
"Methods" (so is very much in context) and hit control-N to create a
new Method. This is really quick and easy, as opposed to having to
right-click the item.

I can see both pros and cons to this approach, but I just wanted to
point out the reasoning.


As for allowing duplicate items, again there are pros and cons.

Pros for showing duplicate items:

-- Keeps the menu the same length all the time. If we only show 1 menu
item in some cases and 2 items in others, the File menu will change in
length, which can be disorienting.
-- Helps reinforce the user model of the two New items.

Cons for showing duplicate items:

-- Looks dumb
-- May be disorienting until the user model becomes clear to the user.

Set target milestone to TBD

Set target milestone to TBD

I would suggest to disable (=make grayed) menu item without shortcut
in "duplicate" situation, so menu looks like below:
<grayed>New File...</grayed>
        New File... Ctrl-N

reassigne to Marek, new owner of ui subcomponents

Assigning to Tim

this issue looks outdated to me.
The current New File... has always the stortcut and is project based.
closing as wontfix, please reopen if yu disagree.