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Bug 231378 - Welcome->My Netbeans Recent Projects says <no recent project>
Summary: Welcome->My Netbeans Recent Projects says <no recent project>
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: ide
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Welcome (show other bugs)
Version: 7.4
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P4 normal (vote)
Assignee: Stanislav Aubrecht
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Keywords:
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Reported: 2013-06-17 15:37 UTC by Lou Dasaro
Modified: 2013-09-02 21:08 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Lou Dasaro 2013-06-17 15:37:52 UTC 
I have a number of JavaFX projects and created some new ones and a Java class library. Exited and entered the IDE. "Recent Projects" still reports "<no recent project>". Made a different project the "Main Project". Compiled and ran it.  Exited and entered the IDE. 

"Recent Projects" still reports "<no recent project>".

Error occurred using base IDE (just Platform, SE, FX)

This error also occurred with Netbeans 7.3.1 on Windows 7 (32-bit)

This error does NOT occur on OE Linux 6.2 with either version of Netbeans.

It's an annoyance, not a showstopper for me.
Comment 1 Lou Dasaro 2013-06-17 15:52:11 UTC 
Supplemental: The OEL installation has everything, the Windows installation is minimal as reported.
Comment 2 jladbury 2013-07-02 06:30:31 UTC 
Happens to me too, on a recent clean install of 7.3.1 on Windows 8.
Comment 3 Stanislav Aubrecht 2013-07-08 12:19:57 UTC 
Reporter, is the project showing in menu File - Open Recent Project?
Comment 4 Lou Dasaro 2013-07-22 04:35:00 UTC 
It looks like its working okay in NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201307192300).
Retested on 7.3.1 and I believe it worked correctly, too.

The original bug report may have been due to my misunderstanding of the functional requirement and the text "<no recent projects>".

I have a dozen projects. They are all open. I have accessed them recently.

I notice the menu File - Open Recent Project is greyed when all projects available are open.

Perhaps the text should read "<no recently closed projects available>", 
since that's more to the actual state - or perhaps there should be no text at all.

This is something for a UX person to decide.

So I am changing it to enhancement, because I think it may have been working all along, and was just confused by the verbiage. If it confuses me, there's probably a whole lot of other people confused by it and just don't bother to report...
Comment 5 Lou Dasaro 2013-09-02 21:08:17 UTC 
In the "Recent Projects" window, I am asking that

the current text:"<no recent projects>"

Be changed to:   "<no recently closed projects>"

Reasons:

1. The current text is ambiguous - no recent projects - where?. 

2. Because of this ambiguity, I (and others) believed there existed a defect, because we had recent projects - just none of them were closed.

3. Because the proposed text would accurately describe the state, where the current text does not.