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[release34 jul 10] ...because it is useless with this module enabled. By default it is empty anyway, and looks mysterious.
New welcome doesn't use this option. Isn't it node of old welcome panel? I think yes, I'm not sure if it is useless. It was discussed that old one will be alive and will be displayed in case some of module puts its entry there. However, when this node is empty and there is no option to put there entries it is is really useless. In each case I think it is work for core becuase of old welcome panel.
Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.
David, Yarda, can you give me advice what should be done here? Should I test somehow that some entry exists in old welcome directory show/hide node of welcome panel? Thx.
IMHO the node was close to useless for average users even in 3.3, and completely useless now. Suggest to just hide it unconditionally from the welcome module. Or more simply just remove the node from core. No one wants to manually customize what panels appear in the welcome module! That is ridiculous. You can always look in the system filesystem if you're one of the three people (probably including Yarda) who will ever want to look at the list of panels. So suggest to patch core/ui/src/org/netbeans/core/ui/resources/layer.xml to delete Welcome.instance, and remove the obsoleted class org.netbeans.core.ui.WelcomeFolderNode.
ok, fixed (deleted) as Jesse suggested, in main trunk.
verified in [nb_dev](20020725)
Created attachment 7866 [details] layer.xml diff for easier merging to 3.4.1
Hi. This issue is marked as 3.4.1_CANDIDATE. It means that it should be integrated into release341 one branch. The plan at http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/docs/releases/34/index.html expected beta1 to be produced on Dec01. That did not happen due to a lot of outstanding not integrated candidates like this one. Would it be possible to spend few minutes by backporting this fix? Thank you in advance.
few minutes = 2.5 hours :-), but finally integrated into release341 branch.
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.