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Bug 130756

Summary:	Wizard for Web Project with Existing Sources asks for Libraries location twice
Product:	javaee	Reporter:	Petr Jiricka <pjiricka>
Component:	Web Project	Assignee:	Patrick Keegan <pkeegan>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker	CC:	dkonecny, kganfield
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	USABILITY
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description Petr Jiricka 2008-03-21 11:39:37 UTC

When creating a new web project with existing sources, the wizard has the following fields:

"Use Dedicated Folder for Storing Libraries" in step 4 (Name and Location)
"Libraries Folder" in step 4 (existing Sources and Libraries)

This appears as if the wizard is asking for the same information twice, and may confuse the user. The meaning of the two
fields should be better explained.

Additionally, the name of step 4 is also slightly misleading, as it refers to "libraries", which are already mentioned
in step 2.

Comment 1 David Konecny 2008-03-27 11:37:42 UTC

Patrick (or Ken?) could you come up with some better wording. At this state this is after-6.1 issue. Thanks, -D.

Comment 2 Patrick Keegan 2008-03-27 12:01:26 UTC

Shouldn't the Libraries Folder field in page 4 of the wizard be populated with the Libraries Folder specified in page 2?
Or does "libraries" really have a different meaning here?

Comment 3 David Konecny 2008-03-27 22:28:49 UTC

It has different meaning.

Comment 4 Patrick Keegan 2008-08-15 19:15:24 UTC

Sorry for the delay on responding here. I'd be inclined to resolve this as WONTFIX. 

Yes, it is awkward that "Libraries Folder" appears twice in the wizard. But I think that label is accurate for each
context and that the context is pretty clear in both cases. In page 2, you specify where the libraries folder will be
(and you get this choice only after checking "Use Dedicated...". In page 4, you specify the location of libraries that
the imported app already depends on, just as you do for the source roots, etc.

Plus I haven't heard anybody complain about this.

Petr, David, Ken, what do you think?

Comment 5 Petr Jiricka 2008-09-23 16:56:20 UTC

Closing per Patrick's suggestion.