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[build 200501251900] start IDE, set up new AS, restart IDE, start AS from IDE, go to AS's context menu => you can see properties 2x: first opens "Customizer Dialog" second opens "<AS instance name> [running] - Properties" I think that having two options in context menu with the same name which lead to different actions is little bit confusing.
Created attachment 19964 [details] twice properties
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j2eeserver bug while merging 2 nodes?
*** Issue 54665 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
This is really annoying. Please fix it for beta. (Possible fix: just rename one of the "properties")
I am not sure this is a P2. It does not look nice, but what does it hurt other then your esthethical feelings? Ultimately I would like to see one Properties action that will open the server manager and select the server from where it was open. The problem is that there was a Properties action showing the properties window. Not all properties were moved to the customizer that is used in server manager so sherold was not comfortable replacing it with customizer. It is up to the app server plugin owner to decide when all the important properties were moved to the customizer and then kill the properties action. When this is done, reassign this to j2eeserver and sherold. The next step will be that sherold will add the properties action that will open the server manager. This will be added into j2eeserver module to ensure consistency (and also because it needs access to server manager ui). Thanks.
It looks like the second properties action is being added because the IDE knows that a node with a property sheet needs a 'Properties' menu item. I guess this goes back to my one of my objections with the current UI philosophy: a Properties action should open a Property Sheet. Some other action should open dialogs that behave like customizers.
I am commited to addressing this before beta. But it is NOT a P2. The easy fix is to change the title of the action that opens the customizer to have a title like "Customize". The other choice is to integrate the Property data, that appears in the sheet as a panel in the tabbed pane.
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this did not make it into beta. fixed in the trunk
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