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As noted in issue 37943 the notion of "customize" is used very inconsistently through the IDE. In many cases, important functionality is placed in fairly "difficult to discover" locations "behind" a customize menu item. The VCS filesystems have a "customize" item which is used to change settings associated with the filesystem. I believe that these settings are duplicated in the Properties window for the filesystem. I recognize that it is important that users be able to change these properties associated with the filesystem. However, it is probably not good to have this information shown redundantly in both the properties window and the customize window. And it seems unfortunate that this information is as hidden as it is behind the "customize" item. However, I do not know for sure what the right alternate design is at this point. The most obvious thing to do is to allow the "properties" menu item to display the stuff that is currently in the customizer.
Gabo, Jan, any comments on this from HIE point of view? Properties are not always suitable for complex customization. Sometimes it's better to have dialog with various UI components then a pure list of properties in a property sheet.
There is now Edit action on the Versioning Manager instead. Properties are on a separate tab in that dialog. So the design is hopefully more clean now.