kate's "Open Folder..." feature

[Waqar Ahmed]

Hi,

> ... so I assumed "Open Folder" would do the same, but it doesn't.

now you know what it does.

A lot of editors have this entry with exactly this name and I haven't
seen any complaints about it anywhere so I think changing it will make
things worse.

Regards

On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 7:07 PM Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> today I found out (by looking at the code) that the "Open Folder" entry in the
> "File" menu actually tries to open the selected folder as project.
>
> I'm using kate since many years, and I had never noticed that menu entry.
> Some years ago I accidentially dragged a folder into kate, and kate opened all
> the files in that directory. I think the warning message did not exist yet back
> then, so this loaded hundreds or file and more or less killed this kate
> instance.
> ... so I assumed "Open Folder" would do the same, but it doesn't.
>
> It tries to find a project in that folder.
> IMO this is not obvious at all.
> "Open folder" does not hint at projects.
> I think it should be renamed, e.g.  to "Open folder as project".
> Or keep the name "Open folder", but move it into the "Projects" menu ?
>
> I'm actually stumbling upon this one because of my work in the cmake file API.
> I doubt that any user would ever find out that he needs to "Open folder" the
> build directory in order to get a working project setup for his cmake build
> tree.
> I would actually prefer to have an extra menu entry
> "Open CMake build tree as project",
> either in the File- or in the Projects-menu.
> Then the user needs to select a directory which contains a CMakeCache.txt (or
> actually the file CMakeCache.txt), and then kate could use the cmake file API to
> create a project from that.
> This would have the additional advantage that kate could ask the user whether
> he wants to use the VCS information for the file list of the information from
> cmake about the source files (which does not necessarily contain headers, rc
> files, documentation etc.).
>
> Comments ?
>
> Thanks
> Alex
>
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