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NavBar improvements in IntelliJ IDEA 11

Konstantin Bulenkov

We’ve slightly redesigned Navigation Bar and added some new sweet features. Watch this short demo for the details and a general overview of NavBar abilities.

New in 11: Play! in IntelliJ IntelliJ IDEA 11 Beta 2 (build 111.24) Available

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8 Responses to NavBar improvements in IntelliJ IDEA 11

Tomek N. says:
November 29, 2011
Great improvements, navigation bar is my first choice when navigating classes rather than /Project/ view. Would it be possible to fix or at least comment http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEA-66791 as well since you are already there?
ian says:
November 29, 2011
is there no default shortcut in Mac? we have no home key ..
Y says:
November 29, 2011
Don’t you have anyone without such an entertaining accent? 🙂
Greg says:
November 30, 2011
Y’all need to get more serious about Mac users. UI and keybindings are definitely designed with Windows in mind and it seems Mac users are an afterthought. Such as not matching universal Mac shortcuts like cmd-e & cmd-g for text searching, cmd-k for clearing console/log windows, etc. Or quirky behavior like how the menubar does not flash when using hotkeys, or how the apps windows bunch up when in exposé.
Konstantin Bulenkov says:
November 30, 2011
@Y Sorry, Gajananvihari is on vacation.
Eugene Toporov says:
November 30, 2011
@Greg, which keymap are you using? There’s one named “Mac OS X 10.5+”, it is supposed to me more native for Mac.
Niktia says:
November 30, 2011
if you change the package, the classes of the package are displayed without offset
Konstantin Bulenkov says:
November 30, 2011
@Nikita 10x, it’s already fixed

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