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Bug 42178

Summary:	[Study] [BS-6] Project didn't have a project file
Product:	projects	Reporter:	jrojcek <jrojcek>
Component:	Generic Projects UI	Assignee:	Milan Kubec <mkubec>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker	Keywords:	UI
Priority:	P4
Version:	4.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://ui.netbeans.org/nonav/usability/April_7_04/study-report.html#_BS_6_Project_didn_t_have_a_proj
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	41535

Description jrojcek 2004-04-20 15:06:21 UTC

All participants were looking for a project file when they wanted 
to open a project. Some of them finally opened the project but 
they didn't select the project folder directly. They went into the 
project folder and selected nothing - looks like 
FileChooser misbehavior.

Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2004-05-05 05:08:47 UTC

One simple change that would probably help a little: change dialog
title "Open Project" to e.g. "Open Main Project Folder", and change
button text from "Open" to e.g. "Select Project Folder".

It does somehow look like poor built-in behavior of JFileChooser.
Ideally it would let you have two buttons, "Select" and "Enter", and
only enable "Select" when appropriate.

Note that you can set a project folder to be non-traversable in the
chooser... but only if you know that it has no projects in subfolders.
Unfortunately you cannot quickly determine that it has none, unless
the project is really small.

Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2004-09-28 15:59:18 UTC

May be possible to provide a fake "project file", like "<<SELECT>>",
that the user can double-click. Essentially a workaround for
JFileChooser's weirdness.

Comment 3 Petr Hrebejk 2004-09-30 14:46:44 UTC

*** Issue 42542 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 4 Milan Kubec 2008-11-19 10:40:32 UTC

There are currently no plans for this feature. It also behaves better with current usage of dirchooser component for
selecting a project.

Comment 5 Quality Engineering 2009-11-02 11:02:05 UTC

NetBeans.org Migration: changing resolution from LATER to WONTFIX