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Bug 198389 - Uniquify project display names
Summary: Uniquify project display names
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: projects
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Generic Projects UI (show other bugs)
Version: 7.0.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: Tomas Stupka
URL:
Keywords:
: 172348 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-05-06 13:58 UTC by jopet
Modified: 2016-07-07 08:37 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description jopet 2011-05-06 13:58:54 UTC 
Currently, several project types automatically show the name of a project in the project pane based on what is in the build.xml file or a pom or similar. The user is not able to change what is displayed in the IDE other than changing those files. 

This is a problem when a user has checked out a project several times (e.g. several branches) or when project names are long and only different at the end etc. The names displayed in the IDE should be something the user can assign or change from the default which is derived from the files in the directory in whatever way the user likes so to better organize a large number of projects.
Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2011-05-23 23:13:42 UTC 
Main use case is checking out equivalent project from multiple branches; the Projects tab should be able to handle this automatically.
Comment 2 Milos Kleint 2013-03-13 18:35:49 UTC 
related or duplicate of issue 224536, even though that one deals with api/modules, this one is about user customizations..
Comment 3 Milos Kleint 2013-03-14 09:55:20 UTC 
*** Bug 172348 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Martin Balin 2016-07-07 08:37:50 UTC 
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