Hi devs,
I have a list of options I usually change when setting up NetBeans. If
other devs are doing the same, maybe we could set some by default.
Lets see:
grouped tab list (tools -> options -> appearance -> doc tabs -> and
check "Sort opened documents list by project")
This feature got some fixes recently and there are also more PRs
pending: #4792
"New document opens next to active document tab" (same setting panel as
above):
I found this fairly useful when there are a lot of tabs open since it
keeps recent opened tabs closer together.
Firefox can do that too, but its off by default - might be an argument
to leave it off if it is not intuitive enough.
small toolbar icons:
I still use 1080p screens since they simply don't want to break. Which
is why one of the first things I change is to switch to small toolbar icons.
The big ones always remind me on Toys-R-Us. Are the small icons useable
on 4k? Should we make this the default?
view -> show versioning label:
Super useful. Shows the [branch] next to the project name/files.
Git -> Show History... could show more items by default. Since
everything is local. No good reason to paginate this starting with 10 items.
bump max file size editor open warning:
Editor asks before opening large files, this value can be probably
increased a bit given that hardware improved. (basically every second
log file will cause this warning)
this one might be controversial since its about tabs:
switch tab size default from 8 to 4 (tools -> options -> editor ->
formatting -> tab size). (java files only?)
Most shell editors still use 8 spaces to represent a tab character, but
everything on the web these days uses 4 by default (e.g github, i think
gitlab too). You can see in PRs who doesn't change that setting :)
show no transfer progress for maven artifact downloads (tools -> options
-> java -> maven -> execution)
--no-transfer-progress flag set in global execution options
The output window doesn't handle displaying the download progress very
well. It only adds to the noise in most cases.
lets concentrate on the uncontroversial, and lets not change too much at
once :)
that is all I had in my notes - more suggestions welcome of course,
best regards,
michael
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