On 10/6/26 18:02, Neil C Smith wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2026 at 10:58, Michael Bien <[email protected]> wrote: >> The minimum viable product of this is being able to add folders to >> project groups. As sub folders and/or as base folder of the group. > ... >> - Another action with "add folder to pg" could be added too (this is >> essentially the core function where everything else is based on). > I agree with most of what you said. Before I pick on one thing I'm > not sure about! :-) > > As I said when pushing the fallback project API to NB33, I agree with > Jan's perspective that this could be an ordinary project factory.
I haven't caught up with everything yet since that was a lot of mails but I like that thought too, we chatted about this idea before. This would build on top of things which are already in "the ether" and well understood inside the ide. (instead of a new pg feature it is implemented as new project type) In fact, one of the first little plugins I ever wrote for NB was a project template which could essentially open anything as "generic project". It couldn't do much except listing files. (I used it for glsl shaders and files which didn't have language support yet) The open question is what should be the project marker and do we want pollute repos with nb config files - but I suppose there are solutions to that too, e.g a file at the root / private folders or even in the nb user config (I learned the c++ lite support works that way since you open projects with the new project wizard - which is wild). -mbien > A > fallback / basic project factory that allows for the user to mark and > unmark a folder as a project is a potential basis for a bunch of > things that have been requested over time. We could have an inverse > action to "Open Project of Folder" that is "Open Folder as Project". > It could be used in project groups for the root folder, but such > folder projects could then just be opened in project tab/groups like > any other. And as a standard registered project type, they can be > extended, hidden, excluded or reimplemented like any other. > >> future / discoverability: >> >> Instead of starting with the "none" pg, NB could set the default project >> dir as pg root folder on first launch. >> >> more UI: the Projects view has a severe lack of a (collapsible) toolbar >> as used for the Debug, Navigator or Hierarchy views -> some actions >> could be moved into that. Toolbars are self documenting features. > Both interesting ideas to explore further. > > Best wishes, > > Neil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
