I am running 041226 custom on JDK 1.6 with
-J-Dnetbeans.logger.console=false and
-J-Dnetbeans.winsys.statusLine.in.menuBar=true.
Until recently, when a random exception was caught
(e.g. some NPE in RequestProcessor), the message
status would appear in red in the status line, and
I could go to the log file for details if I wanted
them. Now however (after issue #50365 I presume)
the old exception dialog appears immediately,
which is not what I want to happen; it is
unpleasant in builds you are actually using, since
it can block you from even saving important work
and so on.

http://core.netbeans.org/proposals/exception_notification.html

has this curious note:

"It is possible to switch the status bar
notification off (e.g. for beta releases) by a
global configuration property
(netbeans.logger.console=true)"

I am not sure what this means. What happens when
it is off, exactly? And why would you want to set
this flag to *true* in a beta release? It should
be true in dev builds, false in release builds, or
even just false all the time by default; and I
don't see what relationship it has to exception
notification.

I never want to print to console - the log file is
fine - and I want the status bar notification,
because I really do not want exception dialogs
popping up except when I ask to see them. So what
flag(s) do I need to set to get this behavior?