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1. Go to Team -> Kenai -> Open Kenai project 2. Paste http://kenai.com/projects/javaee-patterns into the Search textfield and press Search I would expect that the dialog would find this project, but it does not. I have to put in just 'javaee-patterns', then it is found.
We return the same results as http://kenai.com/projects does
That may be true, but the use case and workflow on the web and in the IDE are different. * On the web, I go to kenai.com, then click projects, then enter the project name. * In the IDE, I may have already visited the project, and perhaps I have the project page opened in my web browser. In such a case, it is natural to copy/paste the project information from the browser to the IDE, so I just copy/paste the URL from the address bar of the browser. Also when receiving information about the project by e-mail, one will typically receive the project URL such as http://kenai.com/projects/javaee-patterns, rather than information such as "project javaee-patterns on kenai.com", so it is more typical to paste the whole URL. This was also my case. Also it is weird that the field accepts almost any information about the project (project name, username, description, tags), *except* the URL as a clear and generally accepted identifier of everything on the web.
Probably valid use case, but IMO very nice to have feature.
Opening project for a URL is a valid use case, but I'm not sure anybody would expect pasting URL into a *search* field. Definitely in the browser you would not do it. If you have URL for something, you don't need to search for it. So in the IDE UI we should make it clear that also URL can be enetered, otherwise I doubt people will try it.
> So in the IDE UI we should make it clear that also URL can be enetered, otherwise I doubt people will try it. I think we don't need to mention this works anywhere... If we don't, users won't try it (which is correct, IMO, it is a search field after all) but if they do try it, it will just work...
Fixed http://hg.netbeans.org/cdev/rev/1b1aa505db96
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *200909071948* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/1b1aa505db96 User: joshis@netbeans.org Log: #167664 - Open project dialog does not accept a URL