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When I am in a All Files View, and navigate through directories, I would like to have possibilities, as before, to create a new file on my disk. When I Right-Click on that directory and select NEW File, it oblige me to create a new file in a project. Impossible to create it in the selected directory. IMHO, it's a DEFECT.
The question is what to do about it... Jano has suggested just removing this view entirely (which I think is dangerous), and the current UI specs have no provision for creating files outside of projects.
Removing the View and not allowing users to create stuff outside of project is not good IMO. I personally use IDE to do really lot of things in various directories with various files. After the view gets removed youser will be able to create *only* java stuff in src folder. I'm not saying it's bad, but users will need to use another tool to do things, that were used to do inside IDE.
Probably if there is a folder selection when you invoke File -> New and it is not owned by any project, all templates should be displayed and the folder-based target chooser should be used, rooted at the root masterfs file object. Also pay attention to the case that the user selects a folder in a project which is not open and invokes File -> New; you need to show that project in the project pulldown even though it is not open.
*** Issue 42393 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
P3 -> P2. This should be resolved one way or another for D
Alternative idea, probably much easier to deal with: if we have a Favorites tab of whatever sort, we can override the folder context menu to have two items, one to let you make a new dir, one to make a new file; each should just show one text field with name, and make it. Very simple.
Simple dialogs for creating the files outside of project added.
verified in NB200405182245