I have been compiling a list myself of things I wanted to improve with NetBeans as a relatively new user. I'll share them here, but I will also keep an eye out for the Wiki page that Wade is going to make and try to contribute there. Here are some of the examples I had in my list:
- The Wizard dialog is always too small and I have to resize the window to read everything. I want to make it remember the size of the last Wizard window. (This was going to be my first real plugin attempt) - The Project Groups menu item should have a sub-menu listing project groups in addition to the existing dialog window. This would allow someone to go File->Project Groups->My Project X directly, and only open the "project group manager" window if you need to add/modify groups. (Very minor convenience improvement) - Better 4k monitor support (right now requires fiddling with dpiaware and font size, sometimes images are scaled and pixelated still) - Can't run Windows command prompt in the Terminal - Add more padding/borders to the Darcula L&F as it feels crowded to me - With some L&F Some status bar/tooltips - Right click a file/folder -> Open in Explorer (Think this is a optional 3rd party plugin only currently) On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 7:49 AM, Christian Lenz <[email protected]> wrote: > Some other People say that, better indexing with NB over IntelliJ but I > can say sometimes yes and sometimes not. I can say what I tested was the go > to file and this is often clunky in NetBeans or the quick search is not > that fast over intelliJ and and and. Open Options Needs some MS to open > etc. So I can say that the Performance of IntelliJ is way better in > different cases than in NetBeans. I will add some comparisions too. > > So NetBeans is my full enviroment for almost everything what NetBeans can > handle for hopefully for more in the future and yes I can feel the indexing > Problem too, what Wade mentioned. For Code completion, for go to whatever, > searching etc. > > > Cheers > > Chris > > Von: Geertjan Wielenga > Gesendet: Freitag, 20. April 2018 13:56 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: IntelliJ IDEA vs Netbeans > > Deklunkification on indexing and performance levels can be done with the > code currently in Apache NetBeans Git. Jaroslav Tulach will have insights > as well as gratitude for help in this area, while note that indexing and > performance have subjective aspects, e.g., even in this thread there’s a > preference expressed of NetBeans over IntelliJ in relation to performance. > > Gj > > On Friday, April 20, 2018, Wade Chandler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 04:49 Geertjan Wielenga < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Deklunkifyng NetBeans was never a big goal in Oracle though now, in > > Apache, > > > this really seems a doable target and one we can work on together. Many > > > deklunkification tasks are probably quite trivial. How best to tackle > > this > > > and who will take the lead in beginning to list these? Any deklunking I > > am > > > able to implement I will implement, just provide a very specific list > and > > > we’ll form a NetBeans deklunking taskforce. > > > > > > > +1 this has been my goal with the move to Apache, and once we get more of > > the other bits over plan to try to tackle much of it. I love > > "Deklunkification Taskforce"! > > > > My biggest item I plan to look at is the indexing which blocks some > things, > > and impacts performance. It is really as far as I can tell the main > > performance difference as it has impacts on the editor and other UI > > actions. > > > > I much more prefer the integration of NB with the tools project support > > versus rolling our own. The classpath and build differences can really > be a > > bear sometimes when having differences between the two, and builds or > > executions work in one side, but not the other. > > > > So, I find this a strength of NB, as I have helped team members over the > > years with such issues in other environments. > > > > I will create a page in the Wiki later if nobody else has; right now I > must > > get ready for CodeStock! > > > > Wade > > > >
