> users that they need to hold down CTRL or CMD to make anything > clickable in the editor
If the problem really is „Ctrl-Click“, then I’d first change the template text and only later "throw the baby out with its bathwater". > Ken, that would actually be a useful thing to highlight early in your > book, as it's a key part of navigation around code and resources in > the editor. And there's a very obvious reason you don't want a normal > click to navigate anywhere in a text editor. ;-) Good idea. On the other hand the UI should be usable without reading any books and as Ken adventure shows, apparently the UI is currently misleading enough... -jt PS: If you want me to update the text, I can do it as a weekend entertainment - at least I’ll have some important contribution to next Net|Beans release. > 27. 9. 2025 v 11:22, Neil C Smith <[email protected]>: > > On Fri, 26 Sept 2025 at 19:44, Michael Bien <[email protected]> wrote: >> agreed. I remember trying to remove some even more annoying occurrences >> of the template links for cases which leave even less design space for users >> but it got >> vetoed unfortunately. >> >> https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/3876 > > And from that discussion it appears that better signposting to "new" > users that they need to hold down CTRL or CMD to make anything > clickable in the editor is still something we're missing out on! :-) > > Ken, that would actually be a useful thing to highlight early in your > book, as it's a key part of navigation around code and resources in > the editor. And there's a very obvious reason you don't want a normal > click to navigate anywhere in a text editor. > > This header change came from > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2960 Unfortunately, that only > partly made this "easier", because it also removed the important fact > that these things are managed from Tools / Templates and not Tools / > Options. > > In particular, Tools / Templates - Licenses / Default License - Open > in Editor is I think what you're looking for? > > It's important to consider that these are also brandable. If one of > the reasons for the current text is still VSNetBeans, and that is not > working for the IDE, they do not have to be the same. > > Best wishes, > > Neil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
