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When Bad interfaces attack: Netbeans for Ruby IDE

December 30th, 2007

Netbeans has become my IDE of choice for Ruby on Rails, and boy, is it an excellent choice.
However, I was opening a project I was working on when this prompt came up.

How does the question … “Do you really want to open it?” have only one option for a response?
Clearly, the right set of options should be

1. open it/don’t open it
2. skip file/open it (I prefer this because it tells the user that the process will not terminate)
3. no/yes (not as good as the others)

Don’t make me think Netbeans team … a tiny spot on an otherwise fantastic product.

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