XDesignPlan

xDesign involvement in 7.0

Interaction design

• 132291 Mac OS X L&F (Ondra)
• 123467 Improve keymap options panel (Ondra)
• Shorten and update appearance of New Project, New File wizard and other wizards (Jano)
• Fixing layout of dialogs (Jano)

Visual design

• 7.0 branding (Leos)

Usability studies

•  ???

User interviews

•  ???

Other features on xDesign radar

Core team plan (Tonda Nebuzelsky):

• 123343 Global back/forward navigation
• 123344 Common status line
• 123430 Merge "from Scratch" and "with Existing Sources" project wizards
• 123464 Improve UI for resolving broken references
• 123429 Merge various Output and Result windows
• 132291 Fix appearance of NetBeans on Mac OS X look and feel

• 151868, 151870, 151871

Shorten and update appearance of New Project, New File and other wizards

• QuickSearch - add searching through projects, files, etc.
• Nimbus - continue fixing the remaining issues
• 140540 Description of main menu actions is the status line
• Address too many categories in Options | Miscellaneous
• Add Hints into Taks list

• Merge various Go To actions (Files, Types, Spring Beans), (Symbol, Function, Variable), (Test, Rails Action, View, Grails Controller, View) to reduce menu clutter and shortcut clutter
• Merge Select actions (Select in Project, Files, Favorites, Classes)

• Replace the combo box in Navigator by toggle buttons
• Merge Favorites window into Files window
• Merge "Open Recent Project" and "Open Recent File" into a single menu
• Add icons to "well-known" places into the folder chooser on Win XP (Open Project, etc.)
• Replace "" marks by parentheses () in Main menu (compile action, debugger actions, profiler)
• Show Ctrl-Tab shortcut next to "Go to Previous Document"
• Add branding into the "Usage Statistics" dialog

• Make the Tools menu static (move some items into Source menu, other items into Options)
• Introduce Services menu (questionable)
• Kill the Tools menu altogether (highly questionable; move dynamic items into other menus, move "managers" into Options)
• Hide Files window by default

Editor team plan (Jan Becicka):

• 103219 Import/Export Formatting Settings
• 123467 Improve keymap options panel

• Integrate (Javadoc) Analyzer into Task list
• Reduce the clutter in editor gutter
• Eliminate the "cycling" icon in editor gutter

• Instant, non-intrusive, smaller code completion

• Hide the editor toolbar by default
• Point to JDK Javadoc on the web by default if Javadoc isn't provided by the user
• Rename "Members View" to "Members" in Navigator

Web and Java EE team plan (Petr Jiricka):

• Disable "Resynchronize Eclipse Projects" if no Eclipse imported project is open

PHP team:

• Move PHP options into Miscellaneous category

C/C++ team:

• Move C/C++ options into Editor and Miscellaneous category
• Make the menu item for Hierarchy window enabled even if no hierarchy is shown

LCT team (Tomas Pavek):

• Merge Inspector and Navigator
• Move Diff actions from Tools menu into Versioning

Web services team:

• Move Web Service Client Resources into the Insert Code menu