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The right click context menu off of the Filesystems node in Explorer should have the menu item "Mount..." pullright instead of the label "New...". This is because one mounts an existing version control system, not create a new one. Also, it is confusing to the user, who may expect to see the New from Template items listed here (as they are on the right click menus off of the mounted filesystems).
You are right that in most cases you mount an existing CVS filesystem. On the other hand you also sometimes need to create the new one. And via "New->CVS" it is possible. I agree that renaming it to "Mount->CVS" would be less misguided.
It seems that we may need a new category in the "New" dialog to handle this case of creating a new CVS filesystem as well as other version control systems.
Note that there is not a particularly straightforward way to do this, as the APIs do not provide for you to change the label of the submenu, only the contained items. You could create a new action just for this purpose, but that is a bad idea since it breaks the code association that this is a new type for the Filesystems node, which could impact things like scripting and so on.
Jesse, I don't fully understand your comment. are you saying that it is not easy to change the label of the Explorer's context menu from "New" to "Mount"? My previous comment on this bug referred to adding an entirely new category to the New (New from Template) dialog to account for creating new version control systems.
Right--the node lists NewType's which specify what new things can be added underneath it; NewAction shows these in a submenu and this action (not the node) adds the label "New ". So NewAction as is cannot be used to display "Mount ". If it seems important, perhaps NewAction could have protected methods to get the required display labels (one a format when =1 NewType, one a fixed string for the submenu when >1 NewType), so that nodes like this one could specially subclass NewAction with this change and include that action in their context menu instead. If you think this should be done, please propose it on dev@openide with a reference to this bug #. What is displayed using the dialog is an entirely independent issue, I am only referring to the Explorer's context menu.
The Filesystems popup menu - move items from submenu New to the main popup menu.
verified in [nb_33](200111291155)
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.