Re: Do you use NetBeans with SVN or CVS?

2018-03-09 Thread David Cogen
On 03/08/2018 07:25 AM, Brett Ryan wrote: I thought we deprecated both of these years ago? Actually wasn’t CVS taken out in 7.? I would be EXTREMELY inconvenienced if CVS or SVN support were removed from netbeans. Here were still use both extensively. (We use git too, but our CVS isn't going aw

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

2018-01-19 Thread David Cogen
On 01/19/2018 10:44 AM, Thomas Wolf wrote: Highest contrast does not always translate to highest legibility.  When lettering is small (as it tends to be in many developers' editor), a white font on a black background leads to lesser legibility due to overpowering background color.  Out of curio

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

2018-01-19 Thread David Cogen
On 01/18/2018 03:58 PM, Thomas Wolf wrote: Not sure what lack of contrast you’re talking about with Darcula. To my eyes everything that is of interest or always in my face has good contrast - to the extent possible and still distinguish between different types of text (keywords, comments, etc

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

2018-01-18 Thread David Cogen
On 01/18/2018 02:22 PM, Neil C Smith wrote: On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 at 19:18 David Cogen <mailto:co...@ll.mit.edu>> wrote: I tried that too. Not a fan of that one either. Why do so many themes (everywhere, not only netbeans) minimize contrast)? One of the colors - e

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

2018-01-18 Thread David Cogen
On 01/18/2018 02:01 PM, Thomas Wolf wrote: This won’t help your current issue, but if you want a good dark theme, try Darcula - highly recommended (and not gratuitous in its use of color :-). To perfect everything, use Monaco for the font the editor uses :-) I tried that too. Not a fan of tha

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

2018-01-18 Thread David Cogen
On 01/18/2018 02:02 PM, Dawn Raison wrote: Yes, that's a classic NB gotcha... You need to go to plugins/installed and tick the 'show details' box. Then you can see all your plugins, and uninstall it. That's weird, Very unintuitive. What is the reason for this (Not seeing all the installed

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

2018-01-18 Thread David Cogen
On 01/18/2018 01:25 PM, David Cogen wrote: On 01/18/2018 01:07 PM, David Cogen wrote: Today I tried the dark metal theme. I hated it! (Extravagent and gratuitious use of unnecessary color.) So I tried to revert. I switched back to metal theme and restarted. I should also say that I

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

2018-01-18 Thread David Cogen
On 01/18/2018 01:07 PM, David Cogen wrote: Today I tried the dark metal theme. I hated it! (Extravagent and gratuitious use of unnecessary color.) So I tried to revert. I switched back to metal theme and restarted. Mostly good, but my editor windows are still showing up with the dark

How to undo dark metal theme?

2018-01-18 Thread David Cogen
Today I tried the dark metal theme. I hated it! (Extravegant and gratuitous use of unnecessary color.) (Sorry) So I tried to revert. I switched back to metal theme and restarted. Mostly good, but my editor windows are still showing up with the dark theme :( I might try clearing the cache w

What is "Initializing Bugtracking repositories"?

2018-01-09 Thread David Cogen
Netbeans has been doing "Initializing Bugtracking repositories" for several hours now. I have no idea what this is, but it is severely impacting performance. Nothing showed up in my searches for this issue. Any ideas? - To u