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See the post on nbusers in 'URL'. The user finds the packages view of the project too convoluted. Here is an excerpt: "Once this one-time startup hurdle is overcome, I end up with a packages tab that has 100+ entries that's difficult to navigate because of its length and because of the long package name. .... I understand that NB4 has some facility to shorten the package name in the tab, but it's not on by default (more startup clicks.) With NB3.6, my complaint was that my directory tree was too deeply nested so that once you expanded to a leaf-node, going to other parts of the directory structure was an exercise in horizontal/vertical scrolling. NB4.0 hasn't improved on this much - I now have much shallower package structure, but the package names are too wide and, because on our project we have lots of packages, I still do alot of scrolling. Back then, I suggested that the best solution to the deeply-nested directory structure 'problem' would be to allow users to 'collapse' the intermediate nodes...I think this is what NB4 allows in the shortening of package names(?) but it's not nearly as useful there as it would be on a deeply nested directory structure."
Agree this may be a problem with large source bases. Any ideas how to solve this? The three options I can think of are: 1) Implement view filtering as outlined in issue 45595. 2) Do a cross between a packages view and the folders view: all empty levels of packages (those that only contain subfolders, not files) would be shrunk into one. Subdirectories of directories that also contain files would be shown as subnodes of their superdirectories, i.e. peer nodes to the file nodes contained in the superdirectory. 3) Show the physical structure and implement enhancement 46063 (easily expand uninteresting folders).
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