kate's "Open Folder..." feature

[Kåre Särs]

On söndag 11 februari 2024 12:46:43 EET christoph at cullmann.io wrote:
> On 2024-02-11 08:50, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Samstag, 10. Februar 2024 20:23:01 CET christoph at cullmann.io wrote:
> >> On 2024-02-10 20:04, Waqar Ahmed wrote:
> >> > 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.
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I think, too, that it does what users of other editors expect and
> >> moving
> >> or renaming will not make it better.
> > 
> > Ok.
> > 
> > What about the second part of my question: how are users supposed to
> > find out
> > that they need to "Open folder" a cmake build directory, in order to
> > get a
> > project with all build targets and all sources files for their source
> > directory
> > ?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> just like today, you already need to do it now,
> that doesn't change.
> 
> More documentation and a blog post won't hurt,
> the standard user will just search the web for it.
> 

I have a hunch that the workflow to manually run cmake in a terminal and then 
after that open the build folder with Kate, to get the CMake-Project, is not 
what most users would expect.
I think most users would expect is to "open a CMake project" by "opening" the 
CMakeLists.txt and then Kate would create the build directory and run the 
configure command(s). 

/Kåre