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| Summary: | Set Main Project submenu unusable when too long | ||
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| Product: | projects | Reporter: | Vladimir Voskresensky <vv159170> |
| Component: | Generic Projects UI | Assignee: | Martin Kozeny <mkozeny> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | anebuzelsky, markiewb, mentlicher, pjiricka, wbrana |
| Priority: | P3 | Keywords: | UI |
| Version: | 7.2 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: | |
| Bug Depends on: | 210148 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 166780 | ||
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Description
Vladimir Voskresensky
2012-03-23 05:00:31 UTC
btw, it's extremely difficult to find project in Run->Set as Main list comparing to "Set as main" in project's context menu :-( Good point, Swing does not automatically manage long menus well. If above a certain number of items, probably the submenu should break apart into subsubmenus, or show a dialog with a JList. (In reply to comment #1) > it's extremely difficult to find project in Run->Set as Main list > comparing to "Set as main" in project's context menu Intentionally - the entire concept was deemphasized in the GUI. There is nothing stopping you from restoring this context menu item for CND project types if you feel it is appropriate there; should be a one-liner. > show a dialog with a JList
I like this idea (though I admit it's really easy to have an opinion about UI).
Still valid, but lower priority after fix of bug #210148. *** Bug 210177 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 222097 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I just want to chime in to say that I too have this problem and don't get the motivation behind removing the 'main project' feature. An option is to add a checkbox inside the projects properties dialog. Noticed a bug related to this, appears the option to set main project is available once you have selected a random project in the drop down list under Run menu. I will not report this as I use it to get around the on-topic problem. just fyi, on mac this seems to work ok as the main menu allows scrolling Integrated into 'main-silver', will be available in build *201312050002* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/rev/b8233f4061b1 User: Martin Kozeny <mkozeny@netbeans.org> Log: #209973: Set Main Project submenu unusable when too long. Change computation of menu size: https://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/rev/a499a27d182f Integrated into 'main-silver', will be available in build *201312070002* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/rev/a499a27d182f User: Martin Kozeny <mkozeny@netbeans.org> Log: #209973: Set Main Project submenu unusable when too long. |