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Hi, I think it will be great to allow users to modify startup settings within the IDE instead of asking them to find the config file to edit it. As far as I know, there is a good plugin that makes this easy: "startup settings" (developed by Claudio Miranda). IMHO, it should be integrated into the IDE.
Yes, probably it would be useful.
If you google for NetBeans too slow, you will find several sites recommending changing the startup values to adjust the RAM use, so this suggestion will also help with this "bad reputation". In my case I suffered the "too slow" issue when changing from Nb6.5 to Nb6.7 because the installer did not update the netbeans.conf with my previous values. So, after a while 6.7 was slower, until I manually edited the conf file to match my previous settings.
I am the author of the JVM Settings module. I have updated it to make it work with NB 6.7. But I need to have additional tests on windows platform. After that I will submit it to plugins website to be certified to 6.7 (as it was with 6.0, 6.1)
Just to let you know I have modified the plugin to - fix path issue with windows back slash - the userdir/etc/netbeans.conf is used, instead of the install_dir/etc/netbeans.conf I have been using it with netbeans 6.8 on linux More information http://nbmodules.javaforge.com/
I see it is on plugin portal http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=6829 though flagged only as working with 6.0, 6.1 Reassigning to claudio4j in case he wants to followup.