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Jano agrees that this menu item is not useful and would be better removed. I would like to do so for E if possible, else F. Trivial to do, awaiting comment from QA & Docs.
Seems reasonable to me. I didn't find a reference to it anywhere in the docs. I'll forward this to other docs folks, but unless you get an objection by, say, Tuesday, get rid of it.
Working on it.
Forgot to mention: I will also remove "Refresh" from the context menu on plain folders.
What do you mean by "plain" folders. Don't people use Refresh e.g. to make sure that VCS status is refreshed? I wouldn't be inclined to remove this just yet. Maybe for 4.2.
AFAIK, CVS (not sure about other VCS) is using a special "CVS > Refresh" contextual menu item on versioned folders. They are actually removing the original Refresh item from the contextual menu.
Right, I should have clarified that the patch only affects folders which are *not* on a VCS filesystem. The VCS support adds its own submenu which is not affected by this. committed 1.60 core/src/org/netbeans/core/DataSystem.java committed 1.142 core/src/org/netbeans/core/actions/Bundle.properties removed 1.6 core/src/org/netbeans/core/actions/RefreshAllFilesystemsAction.java committed 1.90 core/ui/src/org/netbeans/core/ui/resources/layer.xml committed 1.3 openide/masterfs/src/org/netbeans/modules/masterfs/Bundle.properties committed 1.13 openide/masterfs/src/org/netbeans/modules/masterfs/SpecialDelegates.java committed 1.5 openide/masterfs/src/org/netbeans/modules/masterfs/filebasedfs/Bundle.properties committed 1.5 openide/masterfs/src/org/netbeans/modules/masterfs/filebasedfs/FileBasedFileSystem.java removed 1.2 openide/masterfs/src/org/netbeans/modules/masterfs/filebasedfs/RefreshAction.java committed 1.49 projects/projectui/src/org/netbeans/modules/project/ui/resources/layer.xml
Please note that a menu item called File | Refresh All Files was added to NB 4.1 after this change, but it is *different*. It it provided by the Java database and scans Java packages for external changes. It has no effect on files outside Java source roots.
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