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Bug 35121

Summary:	The variables and commands editors should not be modal.
Product:	obsolete	Reporter:	Martin Entlicher <mentlicher>
Component:	vcsgeneric	Assignee:	issues@obsolete <issues>
Status:	RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Severity:	blocker	Keywords:	UI, USABILITY
Priority:	P2
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description Martin Entlicher 2003-07-24 14:10:25 UTC

If variables and commands editors would not be
modal, that will greatly improve the process of
profiles development.
(See also
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=554013&listName=nbdev).

Comment 1 _ tboudreau 2003-08-24 16:40:41 UTC

Technically this could be done by returning a Window/Dialog
instead of Component for the property editor (assuming this
uses property editors).  As former owner of the property
sheet, I strongly discourage doing this.

Perhaps some custom UI for profile development would be
a better choice.  Maybe include some UI for testing the
result on a real filesystem, or at least test running
commands and showing what the command-line text would be.