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[ BUILD # : 201110270600 ] [ JDK VERSION : 1.6.26 ] It would be great if Maven projects displayed everything in the standard layout [1], including (e.g.) README.txt and LICENCE.txt. With the new Git support, support for README.txt will become much more useful if people are using GitHub, which uses README.txt to provide project documentation. [1] http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-standard-directo ry-layout.html
Already visible in Files tab, but might be useful to show a readme somewhere in logical view as well. NOTICE.txt and LICENSE.txt are normally not of daily interest to the developer so I think they should be omitted. BTW most GitHub projects I know of use README.md, not README.txt. Straightforward to write as an external plugin if you feel motivated: http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-netbeans-modules-projectuiapi/org/netbeans/spi/project/ui/support/NodeFactory.Registration.html
I agree that having the README.* visible would be in the projects tab would be a great improvement. Currently for me that's the most frequent reason to switch to the files pane where I have to find the project again.
(In reply to Jesse Glick from comment #1) > > Straightforward to write as an external plugin if you feel motivated: > http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-netbeans-modules-projectuiapi/org/ > netbeans/spi/project/ui/support/NodeFactory.Registration.html Here it is. A one class plugin http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/50171/?show=true
great, thank you markiewb@netbeans.org. closing this issue as wontfix (as not implemented in netbeans codebase)