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When the user does file|open to bring in a file in an unmounted filesystem, they get a dialog box confirming that the IDE should mount the filesystem at the package root level. This dialog did not help new users, as it is intended to do, in a recent usability test. For the report see: http://ui.netbeans.org/usability/Mar_20_02/index.html#mount (to be checked in soon). I propose removing the confirmation dialog box and the dialog box allowing the user to change the mount point, and just mount the needed filesystem in the background, without asking the user.
Utilities module implements this. What if the selected file is not a Java source file? In that case a different dialog is displayed - no guess is possible. What should be done there?
When I open a text file, no dialog is displayed, it just mounts the directory it is in. So it already follows the behavior described here. When I open a zip file, it brings up a dialog asking if I want to mount it, yes or no. If I say no, it does nothing. I think we could eliminate this dialog, and just mount the zip (why else would I ask to open it?) What other file types should I try to see other dialogs?
Re. opening a text file - OK, I thought there was a dialog for that, but maybe it got deleted long ago. Re. ZIP files - agreed. Re. other file types - I think that's it.
Created attachment 5739 [details] Proposed fix.
Fixed in main trunk, please review. Thanks.
Patch looks reasonable to me. BTW about the patch itself - (1) when commenting out code using a bundle key, it is a good idea to comment out the bundle key too, so it is clear it is not in active use; (2) /* ... */ block comments are sometimes nicer for commenting something out in a patch, as CVS treats them as just adding two lines, rather than replacing every line in the block with a //-commented-out version - this makes the patch text look clearer, and will make cvs annotate work better in the future.