With all due respect, please consider how different PHP developers are compared to Java developers. While you may feel your philosophy is better, you are going to confuse many PHP developers and cause them much frustration, all for what? To prove your point that your way is "right?" Please consider there may be more than one "right" way and that creating something that is counter-inituitive for your user base isn't always helpful.

If you are absolutely set on doing it your way could you at least add the options to the menu and when people select them give them a help dialog that explains to them your way of doing things?

FWIW I'm going to be doing a lot of WordPress developer training in 2010 and I want to recommend this product to people who take my courses. While I'm mostly loving WebIDE at the moment I'm concerned that many of my future students will find WebIDE too confusing to use because of your choice to make them learn a menu interface which is different for the most fundamental operations (File New, Save As, Rename) than practically ever other app they have used. Please understand that most of the people doing PHP development are not professional programmers but people who learned to program in order to modify an open source app to meet their needs. Those people will have a harder time if you force them to learn your way of doing things even before they can get comfortable.

JMTCW.

The point is that our products do not ever manipulate files or other disconnected entities. That's the strongest point in our products. We were first guys who implemented automated refactoring (rename). It was 10 years ago. And all that time we are producing BEST IDEs. Seamless cross-language refactoring made our products legendary. We believe that our vision of how IDE should work is the key to our success. And we gathering ENORMOUS amount of feedback. Many, many people come with expectations they do have from using other products. While we are always open to stuff we found interesting and useful we are strongly against the attempts to make our IDE something it is not. We have our own philosophy and vision and we think its essential for user to eventually embrace it to gain full power. And yes, we are aware about "standard" stuff, etc.

Sigh.

Thanks.

May be it would be possible to place refactor block 1 level up? It's the most used functionality for me and will solve the problem of this topic. In the screenshot I would place it right after "Jump to the source" in its own section.
Just trying to be constructive and find the most appropriate solution.

We'll consider this option. However Refactor menu can be 6-10 lines long and vertical size of any popup menu is a big problem. Anyway thanks for suggestion - we will work something out.

Thanks for considering. That's really all I ask.

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