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I am working with PHP projects and often I have multiple files in one project that have the same file name, like index.php, that are located in different folders in the project. At the moment the only way I know of to figure out which file I'm currently editing is to hover over the editor tab to see the full file path. This is a real time-consuming task when I'm trying to check several files that I have open. Would it be possible to follow what a lot of other editors do - for the active tab in the editor, show that file's full file path in the application's title bar? Most editors have that as a feature that you can turn on or off since some developers don't like it. Another option might be to show the full file path in the statusbar or some unobtrusive area of the IDE. Maybe even in the toolbar possibly, but the app title bar probably provides the most real estate and it already shows the name of the project the file belongs to...so the full file path kind of makes sense there.
I made some comments about it in NetCAT mailing list, since change title bar could be a problem. There are several users that wish see project name there, you want file names and so on. IMO, the title bar should have be user customizable with some variable, something like cvs label, where each user can define it as their needs. Maybe it could be handled by NetFIX. Ideas?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 159722 ***