Module Settings are Moving in IntelliJ IDEA 8
Shortly before the soon coming final release of IDEA8, a completely new settings dialog started to appear on the EAP versions. With it, I found myself totally lost, because I was used to navigating directly into my module settings by hitting Ctrl-Alt-S + 1.
Actually, it took me a while to discover where the module settings had been moved to. Not that they were hard to find when I actually started looking for them, but simply because I thought JetBrains were in the middle of reworking them into the new settings dialog.
It turns out, that the module settings have moved to another place altogether.
The Old Module Settings at its New Place
In IDEA 8, you can enter the (old style) module settings by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S, which will take you to a dialog like the one you entered through the old settings plus hitting 1 (one). You can also enter them by clicking the little icon in the top bar next to the old settings icon or by right-clicking a module in the project navigator and choose “Module Settings” near the bottom of the popup menu.
The New Settings Dialog
The old hot-key “Ctrl-Alt-S” now leads to a IDEA/Project settings only dialog, in which things like JDK, libraries, facets and modules cannot be edited anymore. Instead, you can edit IDE-wide settings like fonts, colors, plugins, … or project-wide settings like VCS settings, maven integration, … In fact, if you hit Ctrl-Alt-S without a project open, you can edit “new project default” settings too.
The navigation of the reworked settings dialog somehow reminds me of how Eclipse works in its settings. Hmm… I am not sure what to think of that, but lets see how it works over time.
