Of Course, it will increase a bit of the complexity but it is as it is. This shouldn’t really not a reason why not doing this.
Cheers Chris Von: Emilian Bold Gesendet: Sonntag, 13. Mai 2018 13:05 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: Expose Caret Settings in Editor Options I dunno, I can't really compare -- last I heard about caret blink rate was years ago. I guess we could look at votes in the old Bugzilla to see the most requested features and such? Anyhow, I'm not really bothered by this config being added, but the idea is not to add UI for everything. > There can’t be enough Options to customize to your Needs. Options increase the code complexity. The combinatorial explosion also makes testing complicated. >From an UI standpoint a noisy Options window will be hard to use. I remember NetBeans used to have an 'Advanced' button which opened a bean tree view with basic Java beans settings. I guess something like that would make more sense for something as the cursor blink rate instead of a custom Swing panel. https://ui.netbeans.org/docs/hi/options/advancedOptions.html --emi ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On 13 May 2018 1:11 PM, Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> wrote: > I get your point and I think it's a very difficult balance to make. We > > don't want to overload the IDE with UI. However, at the same time, I don't > > see there being hundreds of requests for new configuration options, > > instead, I have seen about three or four coming up again and again, really, > > in total, in all the time I have been working on NetBeans since 2004. And > > this caret thing is one of them. So, it's not that bad, we're not being > > asked for much more than we already have, though this caret thing is one of > > them, I think it would be handy to have this one somewhere in the Options > > window, maybe within an existing panel rather than a whole new one which I > > think would be adding too much for this. > > Gj > > On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Emilian Bold [email protected] > > wrote: > > > -0.5 > > > > This seems like something a plugin could easily provide. > > > > Normal users would just use NetBeans and have a clean UI while users that > > > > search for more customisations just use the plugin. > > > > The important part is having the API support for this (which we do), not > > > > adding more and more UI. > > > > I feel the current Options window provides too much configuration. > > > > Otoh, people regularly seem to discover something they assumed impossible > > > > has a preference somewhere deep down. So, discoverability is quite bad. > > > > --emi > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > > > On 12 May 2018 7:52 PM, Laszlo Kishalmi [email protected] wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > We have a new feature request: > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-762 about changing the > > > > > > Caret blinking speed. > > > > > > AFAIK NetBeans has 3 caret settings available in its editor which can't > > > > > > be set in the new (post 3.x maybe) NetBeans Options UI. The caret blink > > > > > > rate and caret shape in insert and overwrite mode. > > > > > > What do you think about having a Caret tab in Editor Options in order to > > > > > > expose these properties? Or place those somewhere else? Or not place > > > > > > them at all or implement that as a custom plugin? So I'd like to hear > > > > > > the voice of the community. I fell myself confident enough to implement > > > > > > the required code. > > > > > > Personally I was fan of the non blinking block Caret. > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
