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Summary: | use more descriptive names for Resources and Output | ||
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Product: | java | Reporter: | Chris Ledantec <cledantec> |
Component: | Unsupported | Assignee: | Chris Ledantec <cledantec> |
Status: | CLOSED FIXED | ||
Severity: | blocker | ||
Priority: | P3 | ||
Version: | 3.x | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Windows ME/2000 | ||
Issue Type: | TASK | Exception Reporter: |
Description
Chris Ledantec
2003-05-14 13:06:06 UTC
Issue: A participant can't find how to set a build dependencies between projects. Most of the participants look into: Project customizer, Project properties, Configuration editor. Few of participants are looking for "something named classpath". Analysis: Two- fold problem: the logical structure of a project gets lost when the sources node is expanded -participants did not notice the Output or Resources node easily; the connection of Java concepts to Project concepts is not obvious (stated above). The problem is not specifically connecting up two projects but understanding what the different parts of a project provide -that Output is the built bits of the code and Resources are the libraries one uses when building a project. Once those concepts were understood or explained by the moderator the rest of the task (opening the wizard and choosing the right template) was trivial. Recommendation(s): Wording needs to be improved and the logical layout to keep things from getting lost when viewed with the expanse of nodes that appear under the Sources node changing the names may not be necessary so long as there are other places in the project that will provide more obvious hooks into the functionality the user is looking for. chiefly, i'm thinking of the centralized projects customizer as the alternative. done. As described in http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=619519&listName=nbdiscuss the current work on projects prototype has been stopped. Marking issue as VERIFIED ---> ---> CLOSED Reorganization of java component |