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I always felt the Tools menu was misnamed. If you choose it what it contains is mostly lists of things. Platforms, Variables, Libraries, Schemas, Options ... all of them end in the plural 's. Calling a menu "Lists" would be be precise but too funny. But when I was adding a DataBase of remote hosts for remote debugging functionality it seemed very natural to add "Hosts" item to the Tools menu and then it hit me ... it should be called Resources.
Jano, please, could you evaluate this one?
This is a very good comment. The Tools menu has really changed to collection of resources. Whether to call it really Resources is TBD.
Ondra, what do you think about this ?
I agree, it's worth to make improvements in Tools area. See https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104036 with my proposal how to improve the situation as well.
Yes, it is a good comment. Most of items in this menu really do fit better under resources than under tools. As for disadvantages: "resources" is slightly longer and our current users are already used to "tools" .. so this may cause a little bit confusion to them (which is of course typical argument against any change whatsoever ;-) ). I don't see any "cheap" method of evaluating which name is better. We could perform card-sorting, but it'd cost an unappropriate amount of resources for such a small change not even bugging anyone. We could probably just try in early development builds and wait for feedback, though.
This is an enhancement, not bug.