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Bug 259076

Summary: Make the Go to File... dialog easier to find /// Was: Improve the open dialog
Product: ide Reporter: pekarna <pekarna>
Component: UIAssignee: issues@ide <issues>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: markiewb
Priority: P3    
Version: 8.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description pekarna 2016-04-30 23:52:15 UTC 
The Open file menu item simply opens the system's open file dialog. At least on Lunux.

That is quite unsatisfactory. The dialog should be a custom one for NetBeans. For instance:

- Have open projects root dirs as shortcuts
- Quick search for a pattern
- Filter out files in build directories (e.g. target/)
- Show recently used files (also outside open projects) in shortcuts and search results

Thanks for considering.
Comment 1 pekarna 2016-05-01 00:01:10 UTC 
Update: I've found the Go To File dialog. So that's what I was looking for.
Only - I have never met this functionality - I accidentally found it in description of other bug.

I strongly suggest to use this dialog instead of what appears now under File / Open File... . Or at least duplicate the link to this dialog in the File menu.
Comment 2 pekarna 2016-05-01 00:04:37 UTC 
I'm updating the title, and suggest also these changes:

Change in default shortcuts:
Ctrl + O opens this dialog, 
Alt + Shift + O opens the system open file dialog (because, who needs that, really)

Add an item to the File menu which opens this

Make it list *.foo files even if omitting the * - .foo should be quite clear signal that the user looks for *.foo

Thanks.
Comment 3 pekarna 2016-05-02 15:53:26 UTC 
Another improvement: The dialog should support full paths relative to the project roots. Example:

I want to paste this to the search field:

 reporting/api/pom.xml 

Which is a path to a file from the the root project's root directory.
I expect the Go To File... dialog to behave like this:

If there's a '/' in the searched term, show all files that are on such path from some open project's root path.
Comment 4 Tomas Zezula 2016-05-03 08:41:40 UTC 
It needs to be done in the IDE UI. I just made the feature the binding to Open File or other action has to be done by UI.