There's a UI principle Joel Spolsky expounded years ago: Never force the user into a choice they don't care about.
A lot of users of NetBeans are new to Java or new to programming altogether. They don't know what Ant, Maven or Gradle are, and won't understand what they are for a long time. We owe it to those users to stay out of their way until they actually are interested in choice of build tool and able to make an informed decision. +1 to making maven the default. -1 to surfacing a lot of build tool detail in the "just create a project so I can get on with what I'm actually trying to do" workflow. -Tim On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 8:54 AM Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, 13:19 Anton Epple <[email protected] wrote: > > > I agree that additional/more complex changes, as discussed by Chris and > > Geertjan, make sense in the longer term, but probably require further > > discussion. For now, this is a simple change (mostly branding) which > solves > > the basic issue. > > > > Well, a simpler way to what Geertjan suggested might be to make the > top-level folders Java Application, Java Web Application, etc. and have > Maven, Ant, etc. inside them? > > Best wishes, > > Neil > > > > -- http://timboudreau.com
