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The debugger's step / continue / etc. buttons should be exposed in one of the debugger panels, not only in the main NetBeans toolbar; so that they are usable when NetBeans is in full-screen mode.
This is consistent with all other actions. Toolbars are hidden, therefore actions are accessible from the main menu or via shortcuts. All important debugger actions have shortcuts.
True, but it wouldn't be inconsistent to additionally expose those buttons (small) in another place, such as in the Breakpoints window. This could be similar to the buttons to stop/start a server, which are exposed both in a toolbar (as the Run/Debug button) and in the Output window. To me the Step/Continue buttons provide such useful visual feedback (unlike e.g. the File toolbar buttons) that it's strange they can't be found just because I'm in full-screen mode. See also #160824 for an alternate way to handle this issue.