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[ BUILD # : 200509261930 ] [ JDK VERSION : 1.5.0_05 ] Being able to specify a "display name" for a module is nice, but it's really tough to map between the display name and the package name. I could name quite a number of cases where I've wasted a lot of time trying to track down the corresponding item, but I'll just say that I'd rather just have all the NetBeans modules be named with their package names. They'd sort nicely together in the project list and I wouldn't have to play guessing games trying to figure out where and how a newly opened project got displayed when I started with something like org.openide.awt. Or maybe even an option to use the code name base instead of the display name for all Projects? Failing that, we need better support for mapping in both directions (the module dependency wizard is great at mapping from the package TO the display name, but not backwards after you've made a selection). Maybe the tooltip could include the package name whenever a display name was used in a list? Perhaps the most important thing is to have one place where ALL the display and package names could easily be searched. The main API Javadoc page http://www.netbeans.org/download/dev/javadoc/ would be a great place to do this, but it needs some work. (Try to find the display name for org.openide.awt. Why are there 2 "Settings" links in the upper left hand module list? Why do the things under Content look so different?)
There are already several places where both the code name and display name are shown, e.g. - in the add module dep dialog for a module project - in the platform modules list for a suite project If you see places where this info is needed but missing, please remove the INCOMPLETE keyword and enumerate the exact locations in the GUI. Re. Javadoc etc. - please use nbdev. (Anyway the Javadoc page is not really appropriate for this purpose since only modules with official APIs are documented there, yet sometimes you need to deal with modules without APIs in the module devel environment.)
Both the code name and display name are shown when you're adding a module dependency (Project Properties), but not when you come back and look at it after you've gotten a message like "module1 - The module named org.openide.xyz was needed and not found." and want to know if you added the org.openide.xyz module. Either you have to delete likely candidates and add them back, or just give up and go to the project.properties file. Entries in the Projects window do have tooltips that give the complete pathname, but 80% of the time these tooltips don't pop up. (I click, wait, one may pop up or not, I move the cursor to another, hover, it may pop up, but 2 in a row is the most I can get.) The 3rd place I miss this information is in the Project Properties / Build / Module List. Under platform6, for example, I see "Actions APIs" and the tooltip here is "Definition of common actions for NetBeans" Again, how do I map "The module named org.openide.xyz was needed and not found." to something in this list? Yes, you can add more tooltips, but instead of bridging the gaps, I'd just rather that the gaps didn't exist in the first place. As to nbdev, I've already commented there about the inconsistencies on the javadoc page.
Sorry, you may have addressed the Module List issue. I forgot you added that note to 65924; I'm still looking at the 1st beta.
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