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In a recent usability study on Forte for Java (Sun ONE Studio 4), 6 out of 8 users who wanted to look at javadoc files dbl clicked the html node in the Filesystem Explorer and expected to see javadoc in a browser environment, not the source for the javadoc. Some didn't continue searching further, others had (with and w/o prompting) opened the contextual menu. The contextual menu has "View" as the first item. Usu, the topmost item in the contextual menu is the default action, however, in this case "Open" is the default action. Suggested solutions: -Have dbl click on Javadoc open in a browser instead of source -Have the default action appear as the topmost action in the contextual menu Note: There may be some issues with the solution due to other user needs with the IDE, such as wanting to edit html code instead of viewing it.
Set target milestone to TBD
I am not sure how this applies to NB4.0 as the generated javadoc files are not visible in projects view (page is opened in browser imediately after generating). Do we need this change? Also I remember some discussion in the past on nbui@netbeans.org with resolution that correct default action is edit for html files on a filesystems w/o doc capability and it should be view for mounted javadocs.
Really no need in 4.0.