I have noticed one extra issue, if you right click in the projects view and
do a clean and build. The outputs tab in the notiifcation is not loaded up.
If it is already loaded up but the focus in the notification area is on the
Search Results tab, for example, then again the focus is not changed to
In cases like these I find it helpful to search the NetBeans codebase. E.g.:
git clone g...@github.com:apache/incubator-netbeans.git
git grep ProjectManagerImplementation
The output includes the following line:
ide/projectapi.nb/src/org/netbeans/modules/projectapi/nb/NbProjectManager.java:public