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This is usability problem and I think that such stuff should never occure in ide. If user do something and than s/he is instructed by modal warning dialog to do instruction on it (which are over 3 lines) is icredibly ugly and unfrendly to user. Thus I mark it as P2 only (cause at least it doesn't reak anything) and fix is easy. But I'd rather if it goues to 3.5/Nevada too. Reproduction: ============== I have mounted javadoc for jdk1.4 Invoke View->Javadoc Index Search I let search Exception J.index search found some records and I double-click on one of them The Warning dialog appeared instead bringing up my browser. That is logical and it is nice, I was adviced what to do. (i'm also gonna attach this snapshot:) So, I trid folow the instruction on this dialog but I could't :-((( till I close those dialog by pressing OK button... But new user (I bet $10) won't remember it and it's very unpolite to him/her. Why not to have such dialogs unmodal/modeless ?
Created attachment 9894 [details] modal warning dialog with instruction what to do :-(
Half of pain is terrible structure of Options that forces us to use so hard explanations. Needs to be designed better by UI team and implemented. The second part is that we use modal window. This is something what we can consider. Since the first part is out of scope of this issue (it tracked separately) I changed prio & category.
Reassigning
Dialogs like this should contain a button that takes the user directly to the configuration option. If such a button is added, the modality of the dialog is a non-issue. "Cannot execute mozilla. Check that a valid external browser property is set in configuration. [Configure] [Close]"
Obsolete milestone, please reevaluate