[mylar-dev] fyi: IntelliJ IDEA 5 favorites view

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

I gave IntelliJ IDEA 5 a quick try the other day, and found it interesting that IDEA has a "favorites" view in which you can use to manually manage what makes up your task context.  But the fact that it’s manual makes it feel more like a hierarchically-organized bookmarks view, and I definitely can’t imagine trying to keep it organized when working on a large system and switching tasks.  Note that the other new Project View features in IDEA are things that already work well in the standard Eclipse.  >From the release notes: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/newfeatures.html

Project Views

The Project panel in IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 is enhanced to be more compact and customizable.

·         Favorites View: This new feature helps developers reduce clutter and focus on one task at a time, by allowing to place arbitrary groups of files and folders in a special Favorites View

·         New file type icons for abstract classes, annotations and enums (Java 5), exceptions, etc.

·         Sort By Type: Organizes files by type. Useful for visualizing the overall structure of packages (e.g. abstract, concrete, or mixed)

·         Ability to group modules into arbitrary groups, to aid project organization

·         Package name abbreviation (e.g. j.l.math)

·         Compact empty package folders (e.g. com.company.project.feature)

·         Back/Forward actions for Commander (navigation history)

 

Mik

 

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Mik Kersten, http://kerstens.org/mik

Mylar project lead, http://eclipse.org/mylar