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Bug 182140 - New project wizard: do not disable icons of project types for which the appropriate module is disabled
Summary: New project wizard: do not disable icons of project types for which the appro...
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Alias: None
Product: ide
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Features On Demand (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: issues@performance
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Reported: 2010-03-16 16:31 UTC by Ondrej Langr
Modified: 2015-01-23 14:54 UTC (History)
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Description Ondrej Langr 2010-03-16 16:31:35 UTC 
Jarda, FoD code has been stabilized, is reliable and safe. IMO, there's no need to further warn users before creating a project for which the appropriate module has not yet been enabled. 

So I suggest removing both "disabling" the icons as well as text warnings in project descriptions. 

(yes, initial impulse for filing this issue was a situation when I was demoing NetBeans out-of-box-experience and a logical question has come why the project icons look like disabled :).
Comment 1 Jaroslav Tulach 2010-03-17 05:38:36 UTC 
I do not see how "stabilized, is reliable and safe" implies "no need
to warn". The signals (icon and text) were not meant to warn user that something is going to be buggy, but that something (huge and long) is going to happen. This is still true regardless how mature the FoD is. 

Also your experience talks about (little) confusion caused by gray icons, but you suggest to remove both, the icon as well as text. I guess the whole proposal needs more justification. Planning accordingly.
Comment 2 Ondrej Langr 2010-03-18 13:26:14 UTC 
> The signals (icon and text) were not meant to warn user that
> something is going to be buggy, but that something (huge and long) 
> is going to happen.

There are other actions which require significant amount of time (IDE startup, project scanning, versioning opps, ...) where we do not warn the user in advance either, simply because they need to be done. 

The fact that the IDE disables some functionality and only enables it when needed is an *internal* thing which should not be exposed to our users. If somebody wants to create a project they'll do it no matter whether the icon is disabled or not.
Comment 3 Antonin Nebuzelsky 2015-01-23 14:54:55 UTC 
closing now.