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Bug 68232 - File/Folder... is hard to understand
Summary: File/Folder... is hard to understand
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: projects
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Generic Projects UI (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: All All
: P2 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Milan Kubec
URL: http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/new_fi...
Keywords: UI, USABILITY
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-11-07 15:50 UTC by Petr Suchomel
Modified: 2007-03-21 12:05 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Petr Suchomel 2005-11-07 15:50:25 UTC 
File/Folder... is hard to understand. Nobody is able imagine, there are other
types objects. Change it to "Other..." or "More..." and move to last position in
menu.
Comment 1 Marian Mirilovic 2005-11-08 07:49:32 UTC 
Jindra it's P2, so please look at this. 

I tend to agree with Petr. But probably it's too late for NB5.0. Probably good
idea to discuss on the usability team.
Comment 2 Petr Suchomel 2005-11-08 08:58:06 UTC 
IMHO this is more like P1. Visibly at usability tests, people were generaly
failing to find any other items then those in preferred templates.
I see it as show stopper and so this should be addressed for 5.0 release.
Comment 3 Jindrich Dinga 2005-11-09 04:22:55 UTC 
Thanks Peter for reporting this issue. I agree this is a problem, however I think it's too late to fix it in 
this release (5.0), because it's a big UI change and we want to get a feedback from users about it.

Anyway, based on what was said on mailing list and what I heard about this issue from Jano, I'm 
changing the priority to P3 and setting TM to promo G.

Jano and me, we will take care of this issue to not to be forgotten and be fixed in next release.
Comment 4 jrojcek 2005-11-15 15:37:26 UTC 
We've discussed this topic in usability meeting. Here are some thoughts that we need to take into account 
when changing the File/Folder menu:

* related problem is that the new menu is dynamic (recent order) - this is something users don't get for 
the first time and maybe it is not a good behavior also for frequent usage as menu items change position

* if we move the menu item to the bottom of the menu we have to deal with the dynamic behavior of the 
menu

* possible menu item names: "Other...", "All Items...", "All Templates...", "New Item...", "More..."
Comment 5 Jindrich Dinga 2006-08-09 12:16:29 UTC 
Reassigning to Jano.
Comment 6 David Simonek 2007-02-06 11:01:57 UTC 
Passing to projects/ui, where implementation of submenu belongs. Also raising
back to P2, as it's serious usability problem and significally affects
out-of-the-box experience.

The UI spec by olangr is here:
http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/new_file_context_menu/new_file_context_menu.html

Note that UI spec is still subject to change, as it has to go through UI review
process first, before actual implementation.
Comment 7 Ondrej Langr 2007-02-16 11:39:18 UTC 
There were no comments on the spec during the review period, so it's ready for
implementation.
Comment 8 David Simonek 2007-02-28 11:18:46 UTC 
I don't know who from projects team should implement the feature, so just
reassigning to default projects/ui owner.
Comment 9 Milan Kubec 2007-03-21 12:05:05 UTC 
Done. Menu item is moved to the end of the list and renamed to 'Other...'.

Checking in Bundle.properties;
/cvs/projects/projectui/src/org/netbeans/modules/project/ui/actions/Bundle.properties,v
 <--  Bundle.properties
new revision: 1.35; previous revision: 1.34
done
Checking in NewFile.java;
/cvs/projects/projectui/src/org/netbeans/modules/project/ui/actions/NewFile.java,v
 <--  NewFile.java
new revision: 1.23; previous revision: 1.22
done