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The Setup Wizard has a page called "Ready to go" (which doesn't show up in the steps list, strangely). I understand that the purpose of this page is to say "everything after this is advanced, and you can skip it unless you are an expert". However, it doesn't say this explicitly, nor does it provide any indication to the new user what these advanced things are (so the user can feel comfortable that she may skip them). It would be good to add some text to explain that the casual user can click Finish at this point, and then describe what comes next.
The wizard panel in question is part of the core Component.
Reassigning to issues@core.netbeans.org.
UI issue.
CCing HIE. Could you propose something? Thanks.
The best thing to do would be to consult a documentation person, rather than HIE. I guess I assume that this text is static, and so there's no way to enumerate what comes next because various modules may add their own pages later on. Right? My thought, however, would be that this should say something like: "The settings on the following pages are for expert users and generally do not need to be changed. You can safely click Finish now." Again, though, the best thing to do would be to talk to a doc writer about the wording here.
i would even stay away from 'expert users'... something more along the lines of 'the remaining optional steps allow you to configure technology supported in the IDE'..? the idea being that calling it steps for expert users still doesn't do anything to describe what kinds of things end up there... um, bringing John into this. (and David John is an hie :-))
this issue is stalled for too long. The reporter was asked for opinion but he gave nothing. Closing as WONTFIX. If davidjon or other HIE person disagrees, then please provide the exact wording of the text and reopen the bug.
Trung, this is a lame way to get bug count down. the problem hasn't been fixed so a solution still needs to be found. i'll see what i can come up with, but for the record it's not appropriate to close bugs that have been stalled for some time.
> Trung, this is a lame way to get bug count down. the problem hasn't > been fixed so a solution still needs to be found. "lame way"? I don't know. What I need is the information we asked for in this report. When will it happen? That's what I am concerned about. For now I am reassing this bug to jrojcek. He or someone else from UI/HIE will need to take action.
If I understand correctly, this page only appears if some modules adds steps to the wizard other than the ones currently used in the main NB distro. Right? if yes, how about: "The remaining steps of this wizard enable you to configure additional features that are provided in this distribution of the IDE. If you do not want to configure these additional features now, click Finish."
i actually can't find this page in the statup wizard now... David John, can you verify that it still exists (and that Patrick's words fit)? cL
Actually, also NetBeans IDE shows panel "Module selection" in advanced section of the wizard. Any module can add panels to advanced but also to basic part of the wizard (though this is not documented as api?). So I think that the distinction is about important and not so important settings.
The page was displayed only on the startup, but the setup wizard is not displayed at the startup anymore (NB3.4dev) so now this seems to be non-issue.
I agree. I don't see the page anymore.
verified, closed