On Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 16:28 Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote:
> Well, I did reinstall NB10 into the directory without spaces and > reconfigured proxy connection (Although the old one was also tested OK). I > was able to download plugins now. > Does Netbeans 10 have Windows installers now? I may have missed something. Is this a 4k screen laptop? Did you try changing the look and feel? (You shouldn't have to anymore, just asking if that makes a difference for your fonts) I don't understand why they want your IDE in One Drive. > However, I still cannot change this huge font on menus. Can anyone tell me > what I can do about it? > > BTW, will it work > if my projects are in directory with spaces? If not, I am in trouble. Per > company policy they have to be on the cloud drive. > > > > *From:* Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2019 12:57 PM > *To:* Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> > *Cc:* NetBeans Mailing List <users@netbeans.apache.org> > *Subject:* Re: Trying out NB10 > > > > This might also mean something: > > > > INFO [org.netbeans.core.network.proxy.windows.WindowsNetworkProxy]: > Windows system proxy resolver: auto - PAC (http://pacfile/visa.pac) > > > > Gj > > > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:55 PM Geertjan Wielenga < > geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > And probably you have networking problems (maybe something with proxies on > your new machine), because when I put this into my browser, a license is > downloaded, while in your log file this throws network errors: > > > > > http://plugins.netbeans.org/nbpluginportal/files/nbms/licenses/B2B74E56.license > > > > Gj > > > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:53 PM Geertjan Wielenga < > geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Probably the problems are related to having NetBeans unzipped in this > folder: > > > > "C:\Users\ggreenbe\OneDrive - Visa Inc\Software\netbeans" > > > > Folders with spaces never work well on Windows. > > > > Gj > > > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:47 PM Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: > > Because there are no installer for NB10, I couldn’t place it anywhere but > under my home directory. > > So, I created C;\Users\...\Software folder and unpacked archive there. > > I certainly do have all privileges in my home directory. > > Just few minutes ago NB froze again and I had to kill it through task > manager and restart. > > New log file doesn’t show any errors. Previous one does show multiple > network timeouts from unsuccessful attempts to download plugins. > > BTW, can you please post URL for the current plugin portal? I will try to > download some outside of IDE. > > *From:* Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2019 12:04 PM > *To:* Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com>; NetBeans Mailing List < > users@netbeans.apache.org> > *Subject:* Re: Trying out NB10 > > > > You keep removing the mailing list from your responses, please don’t, > there’s many others who could be helping, but you keep excluding them. > > > > Sounds to me like there’s some problem with permissions or the general > setup of your new machine, though it’s impossible to know. > > > > Maybe attach a log file — just keep the mailing list address in your > responses, please. > > > > Gj > > > > > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 23:00, Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: > > Sorry, > > This one I am trying on Windows 10. Dell Precision 5520, 8 cores, 32GB RAM > > JDK 1.8-202 > > Regarding refreshing userdir – I started from the brand new machine. It > had nothing in it. > > I started installing Chrome, JDK, Postman and Acrobat. Netbeans was the > fifth piece of software installed. > > Userdir was supposed to be prestine. > > > > *From:* Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2019 11:52 AM > *To:* Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com>; NetBeans Mailing List < > users@netbeans.apache.org> > *Subject:* Re: Trying out NB10 > > > > You claim to be “far from the noob”, yet you had to be told to refresh the > userdir and you haven’t provided a description of your environment, e.g., > the JDK you’re using. What gives? > > > > Gj > > > > > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 22:38, Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: > > I did delete my userdir and restarted NB. > > Authentication request is now gone, but I still can’t change menu fonts. > > I tried to set it to size 12, 10 and even 5. No affect whatsoever. > > See attached screenshot. > > > > *From:* Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, March 4, 2019 8:32 PM > *To:* Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> > *Cc:* NetBeans Mailing List <users@netbeans.apache.org> > *Subject:* Re: Trying out NB10 > > > > Can you start with a fresh user directory? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gj > > > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 04:03, Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: > > My previous laptop broke, so I got completely new one and trying to build > my development environment from scratch. > > Instead of NB8.2 which was working for me (with some glitches) for several > years I got the latest Netbeans 10 from netbeans.apache.org > > First start was unsuccessful. It displayed the start page and froze. Did > not respond to anything. I had to kill the process through the task manager. > > Second attempt was a bit better. At least it did not freeze. However, all > menus were displayed in huge font that occupy half of the screen. > > I went to Options->Fonts and Colors and tried to change the font from size > 27 to size 12. I was not able to do that as Netbeans popped me > “Authentication Required” > > window. No idea why it require authentication but I wasn’t able to do it. > I tried my login credentials or the one I used to register a while back on > netbeans.org but neither worked. > > Same thing happened when I tried to change some other settings. Can some > kind soul tell me how do I authenticate there. > > For the same reason I wasn’t able to download a single plugin. Download > failed due to connection problems with plugin portal. When I tried to check > proxy settings I got the same > > “Authentication Required”. > > So far NB10 wasn’t useful for me. > > I am far from the noob, only with Netbeans I am working for 20 years (even > before Sun Microsystems acquired it), but this release looks half-baked to > me. > > I do understand that Apache incubation will cause some disturbances, but > did not expect so many problems. > >
