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open required projects on the Open Projects window should be on by default.
The checkbox remembers its state from previous invocation. Architecture wise there is no support for a project type of influence project open dialog which is generic and the same for all project types.
Thanks. This would be helpful, especially from the perspective of beginners that I support.
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue. Thanks for your cooperation, NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss