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Bug 250429

Summary:	Provide a single, unified place to manage SSH/FTP Servers
Product:	platform	Reporter:	terje7601
Component:	Options&Settings	Assignee:	Theofanis Oikonomou <theofanis>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	anebuzelsky, ovrabec
Priority:	P3
Version:	8.0.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Other
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description terje7601 2015-02-15 08:08:45 UTC

Currently there are several places where you have to specify connections to remote servers:

* Team -> Git -> Clone...
* Terminal Window -> Create New Remote Terminal Tab...
* PHP Project Properties -> Run Configuration -> Remote Connection -> Manage...
* ...

What I would like, is a single, unified place to manage all these. I propose to add a node to the Services window: "Remote Connections". This would expand to a list of hosts. In the properties of each host, you'd have 1 tab per supported connection protocol (for now just SSH & FTP).

The "Options -> Export..." dialog should also be updated for this: I propose to add a new category "Services" to reflect the Services window:
- add "Remote Connections"
- move "Databases" here (from its current category "Miscellaneous")
- remove "Remote Connections (FTP/SFTP)" from the category "PHP", since it's now redundant

Comment 1 terje7601 2016-02-19 12:24:25 UTC

Another example are the "Remote Java SE" Java Platforms that can be added to NetBeans. So in the SSH tab, there should be options to set the JAVA_HOME directory, the NetBeans projects directory, etc.