Re: [platform-ui-dev] Context menu on Project Navigator not really conte

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx>]

Agreed. In fact I had a former colleague who loved NetBeans so much he figured out a way to build his Eclipse plug-in with it :).

We need to be careful not to over generalize. If you have problems understanding why context menus come and go it could be because the context is poorly defined. Or maybe the menu items aren't really tied to a context so shouldn't be in a context menu to begin with.

With our stuff, I think the contexts and menus are more obvious, so I'm not worried about that. But you really need to look at it on a case by case basis. 

Doug.

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Subject: Re: [platform-ui-dev] Context menu on Project Navigator not really contextual

On 06/27/2014 06:35 PM, Wim Jongman wrote:

Great idea. However (there is always an however ;) I can recall from my experience with products that it can be very hard to understand why context menu's come and go in the same view. Beginners do not have the contextual mind-set and can get frustrated looking for a menu that they were sure they saw yesterday.

NetBeans has a very contextual context-menu, with different entries at every level, and it seems to get more love from beginners (and more).

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