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I found there is a potential feature we may grab from Eclipse. Generally speaking, when we deal with a Java project, it may consist of several subprojects. For example, we may have a Java project A, consists of subprojects A1, A2, A3, and another Java project B, consists of subprojects B1, B2 and B3. If we create and opened all these subproject, the navigator may appear tangly and confusing. I understand we can currently choose to close some projects for a better view, I still would like to recommend creating a workset view. With the idea of workset, you can easily arrange the relevant subprojects into one category, i.e. a named workset. Take the above case for example, we can arrange projects A1, A2 and A3 into workset A, and B1, B2 and B3 into workset B. By selecting the different workset, we can then easily switch to different projects view while keeping all the projects open. Developers can create a workset, edit a workset and delete a workset to arrange the way we view all the opened subprojects in a quite flexible way. Personally speaking, I really like this feature from Eclipse. So, if it's good, why not take this feature and have it in netbean.
I have to say I don't understand how navigator may appear confusing in relation with number and/or hierarchy complexness of opened projects. When working on netbeans, I have about 100 opened projects/subprojects and Navigator is still the same, easy to use. Speaking about projects, I could understand that their grouping in bigger sets would improve working with big number of projects. But how navigator fits into this and what use cases are we trying to solve?
Please see the attached pdf for a illustration of my workset idea. Thanks!
Created attachment 22055 [details] PDF File to illustration the workset idea.
paulhuang: Thanks for the nice feature description. The proposed feature doesn't concern Navigator. It's more about Projects View configuration. Re-assigning to projects/ui. However, there are no plans to implement this feature in a foreseeable future.
i believe the "open required projects" features that's part of opening a project is more powerful. Maybe allowing to open some of the required projects only can be added. That way you get the projects that you need, dynamically for any given project. Once you don't need it, close it. For future reference, it is still in the Open Recent Project list. About switching 2 worksets. What is the problem in having all projects open? When I need all of them, I have them available, when I don't need some for the moment, I just close them. I personally don't see much added value in the workspace feature apart from making current eclipse users happy. Just my 2 cents.
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