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Bug 25517

Summary:	Welcome module should hide "Welcome" node in Options window
Product:	platform	Reporter:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Component:	Window System	Assignee:	David Simonek <dsimonek>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	dstrupl, jtulach, mihmax
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	layer.xml diff for easier merging to 3.4.1

Description Jesse Glick 2002-07-10 21:24:14 UTC

[release34 jul 10] ...because it is useless with
this module enabled. By default it is empty
anyway, and looks mysterious.

Comment 1 Richard Gregor 2002-07-22 08:02:41 UTC

New welcome doesn't use this option. Isn't it node of old welcome
panel? I think yes, I'm not sure if it is useless. It was discussed
that old one will be alive and will be displayed in case some of
module puts its entry there. However, when this node is empty and
there is no option to put there entries it is is really useless. In
each case I think it is work for core becuase of old welcome panel.

Comment 2 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 08:50:02 UTC

Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.

Comment 3 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 08:56:01 UTC

Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.

Comment 4 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 08:58:28 UTC

Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.

Comment 5 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 09:27:08 UTC

Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.

Comment 6 David Simonek 2002-07-22 14:59:08 UTC

David, Yarda, can you give me advice what should be done here? Should
I test somehow that some entry exists in old welcome directory
show/hide node of welcome panel? Thx.

Comment 7 Jesse Glick 2002-07-22 18:30:21 UTC

IMHO the node was close to useless for average users even in 3.3, and
completely useless now. Suggest to just hide it unconditionally from
the welcome module. Or more simply just remove the node from core. No
one wants to manually customize what panels appear in the welcome
module! That is ridiculous. You can always look in the system
filesystem if you're one of the three people (probably including
Yarda) who will ever want to look at the list of panels.

So suggest to patch
core/ui/src/org/netbeans/core/ui/resources/layer.xml to delete
Welcome.instance, and remove the obsoleted class
org.netbeans.core.ui.WelcomeFolderNode.

Comment 8 David Simonek 2002-07-23 10:23:00 UTC

ok, fixed (deleted) as Jesse suggested, in main trunk.

Comment 9 Marian Mirilovic 2002-07-25 14:55:10 UTC

verified in [nb_dev](20020725)

Comment 10 David Simonek 2002-11-06 14:47:04 UTC

Created attachment 7866 [details]
layer.xml diff for easier merging to 3.4.1

Comment 11 Jaroslav Tulach 2002-12-03 09:54:11 UTC

Hi. This issue is marked as 3.4.1_CANDIDATE. It means that it should be
integrated into release341 one branch. The plan at
http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/docs/releases/34/index.html expected beta1 to be
produced on Dec01. That did not happen due to a lot of outstanding not
integrated candidates like this one. 

Would it be possible to spend few minutes by backporting this fix? Thank you in
advance.

Comment 12 David Simonek 2002-12-03 15:58:10 UTC

few minutes = 2.5 hours :-), but finally integrated into release341
branch.

Comment 13 Quality Engineering 2003-07-01 16:33:19 UTC

Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.