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  2. QTCREATORBUG-31753

Make CMake Project Names more visible in Qt Creator

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      Qt user had following suggestion to improve Qt Creators project visibility:
      "
      As we are transitioning from qmake to CMake, identifying projects in Qt Creator seems a bit more difficult than it used to. Reason: project files are no longer named <projectname>.pro but CMakeLists.txt make them indistinguishable just by their names.

      In the Recent Projects List in Qt Creator (Files>>Recent Projects) it seems to me that I have to put in more effort to find the desired CMake-project than with qmake projects.

      Before, the entries in that list ended with <projectname>/<projectname>.pro, now they end with <projectname>/CMakeLists.txt

      Example-before:
      C:\dev\git\qtprojects\foo\foo.pro
      C:\dev\git\qtprojects\bar\bar.pro
      C:\dev\git\qtprojects\demo\demo.pro

      Example-now:
      C:\dev\git\qtprojects\foo\CMakeLists.txt
      C:\dev\git\qtprojects\bar\CMakeLists.txt
      C:\dev\git\qtprojects\demo\CMakeLists.txt

      I guess it would help immensely here if the project folder stood out a little more, e.g. by making the strings "foo", "bar" and "demo" bold for example.

      I have added a screen shot with what it currently looks like (Recent-files.png) and how it might look like with the folder name emphasized as bold, for example (Recent-Files-bold.png) I guess this illustrates my point in a better way.

      Similar argument could be made for Qt Creator's Welcome Page, where qmake Projects appear wit their name and full path (e.g. qt-demo, c:\dev\git....\qt-demo.pro) and CMake Projects all appear under "CMakeLists" and then their full name.
      I have included a screenshot as well: see "Welcome-page.png"
      "

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              artem.sokolovskii Artem Sokolovskii (Inactive)
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