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Suggestion
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Resolution: Fixed
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P3: Somewhat important
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Qt Creator 14.0.2
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f9a1e6249 (15.0)
Description
Qt user had following suggestion to improve Qt Creators project visibility:
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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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# | Subject | Branch | Project | Status | CR | V |
596425,5 | ProjectExplorer: Show project name instead with file paths | 15.0 | qt-creator/qt-creator | Status: MERGED | +2 | 0 |