As a follow-up to the above question... what happens when I upgrade RubyMine? I am spending a LOT of time customizing the menus and toolbars - am I going to lose all of this work and these settings when I upgrade? What happens if you add new menuitems - will they show up? What happens if you move some menuitems to a different location?

Also, the HELP says you can transfer settings from one IDE to another, which is nice because I am running two instances of your IDE: one on my desktop and one on my laptop. The problem is that there are many XML config files, but none of them are named something like menu.xml or toolbar.xml. There are vague ones named options.xml, other.xml, etc. but I don't know what these do. All of which means this painstaking process is made even worse because I first do it on my desktop and then have to do the same thing on my laptop because I don't know which XML files contain the menu- and tool- bar settings.

Thanks for any help you can provide,

Larry

As a follow-up to the "Restore Defaults" button: It appears that this restores *all* menu settings. I have spent hours pruning my menus and I'm still not done. (One reason it's taken so long is because there are so many options that I did not know what all of them did, so I am experimenting with a lot of them.)

There are so many choices that it is easy to make a mistake by deleting a menuitem that you actually want. (I know, I've done it a few times already.) The problem is that you might have changed a couple of dozen of menuitems, but when you screw up on that one choice and hit "Restore Defaults" *all* of your painstaking work is reverted back to the originals, which means you must start all over.

I'm about 3/4 way through the menus and am scared to death I am going to make a mistake, because I know if I do I am going to have to revert my entire menu structure and start over. So...

1) I submitted a bug on this - it would be nice to be able to select a menu group for restoration instead of it being an all or nothing affair.

2) In the meantime, can you tell me what the config filenames are for the menus, toolbars, etc? This way I can make backups of them as I go along, and then if I screw up I haven't lost a lot of work, rather I can simply restore the appropriate config file and continue modifying the menus.

Thanks,

Larry

Thanks for the tip, Glen.I guess my problem is the same experienced by Microsoft Word users (and just about any other complex app) - too many options. Each of the menus probably average 20 sub-menus, and some of those sub-menus contain other 20-element sub-menus (like Version Control > Git). Like most Word users, I use only a handful of the menu choices, so the net effect is that all of the options serve to slow me down for each and every operation I want to perform because I must spend time trying to find the action I want. (BTW, many a study has been done about the benefits of a Spartan user interface.)

It's great that they give you the option to customize the menus - the problem is that "Restore Defaults" sets *everything* back to its original state. The literally *hundreds* of customizations you can make to get all of the menus, toolbars, and popup context menus just the way you like them takes time; quite a lot if you're really paring down the menus (which I did). Then, if you make one mistake or change your mind about one thing - bam! - *everything* is reset and you have to start all over, once again going through dozens and maybe even hundreds of operations all over again. And I have to do this on twice because I can't see a "settings" file that I can transfer between my desktop and laptop computers.

Are you on the RubyMine development team? I'm hoping to hear back from them about this issue.

Thanks again,

Larry