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Bug 71301

Summary: Object Name in Find in Projects dialog is misleading
Product: utilities Reporter: Marian Mirilovic <mmirilovic>
Component: SearchAssignee: issues@utilities <issues>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED    
Severity: blocker Keywords: UI, USABILITY
Priority: P3    
Version: 5.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on: 57717    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Marian Mirilovic 2006-01-12 11:11:26 UTC 
NB5.0-RC1, JDK 1.5.0_06

Once you open Find in Projects dialog, you'll see tab called "Object name". I
think it has to be misleading for users, what daes actually it mean? I think
it's just File name.
Comment 1 Marian Petras 2006-07-11 12:13:55 UTC 
"Object name" of a file refers to the name of the DataObject representation of
the file. It is clearly a propagation of the implementation aspect to the user
interface.

In most cases, "object name" of a file is equal to the file name without extension.

I have already filed a request for enhancement to use file name instead of
"object name" - see issue #57717 ("Search by filenames instead of object names").
Comment 2 Marian Petras 2006-07-11 13:18:37 UTC 
*** Issue 75260 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 3 Marian Petras 2007-06-06 13:27:49 UTC 
The Find dialogue has been redesigned and file names are now checked instead of
object names, as requested. See issue #35255 ("Redesign UI for entering search
criteria") for more information.

The first NetBeans milestone with redesigned Find dialogue is Milestone 10.
Comment 4 Marian Mirilovic 2007-06-25 07:19:21 UTC 
verified