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Right now I have to right-click in the Projects tab and select "Open recent project" in order to open a project that has been created/opened in netbeans. What would be a great enhancement is if you could see all these projects in the projects tab and when currently not opened it's greyed out I created a scribble what it could look like (see attachment)
Created attachment 81281 [details] Projects tab with closed greyed out project
Not sure this is useful. Imagine you are working on more projects and you have 20 recently opened php projects ... Your project tab will be always full and you will be scrolling over. Moreover, I have no idea how it works with projects scanning, searching, etc. Anyway, that's my opinion. What do other think?
As Filip said, try to open e.g. 70 projects and then try to navigate among them - IMHO not possible. BTW have you discovered project groups (File > Project Group)? That could solve your problem I think.
I haven't tried the groups yet (in fact so far I didn't know there were any ;), but a first test didn't work at all. I'm gonna try it again tomorrow. Will tell you if that's what I was looking for. Apart from that, I think it should be rather uncommom to have 70 projects (maybe I'm wrong here?). You could maybe limit it to the last 20 or so. What I didn't mean was the projects to be open all the time, just to net make them disappear when closing them (which includes no scanning)
> Apart from that, I think it should be rather uncommom to have 70 projects (maybe I'm wrong here?). For NetBeans modules development, it can easily happen (full IDE has more than 800 modules). > You could maybe limit it to the last 20 or so. What I didn't mean was the projects to be open all the time, just to > net make them disappear when closing them (which includes no scanning) I see your point - reassigning to the IDE component, please evaluate. Thanks.
I just checked it: Project group is not what I meant
could be done for all project types
most likely a duplicate of issue 164004, no changes in semantics of open/closed projects are planned nor in the UI. There's a significant design difference between what a project is in netbeans/eclipse, what opened means, what project delete means etc *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 164004 ***