Recent Projects

[MortenMacFly]

http://developer.berlios.de/patch/index.php?func=detailpatch&patch_id=2844&group_id=5358

Sorry, This cannot be the solution. After this patch you'll never get recent projects added to the list. I had to reject the patch therefore.

The right way would be:
Is there a WS? && Is this *not* the default WS?
-> Do not add to recent projectes
Else add to recent projectes.

[Jenna]

http://developer.berlios.de/patch/index.php?func=detailpatch&patch_id=2844&group_id=5358

Sorry, This cannot be the solution. After this patch you'll never get recent projects added to the list. I had to reject the patch therefore.

The right way would be:
Is there a WS? && Is this *not* the default WS?
-> Do not add to recent projectes
Else add to recent projectes.

Absolutely correct, but saving the projects or workspaces  from the context-menu of the projects-tree should work in the same way.
At the moment, the recent-projects-list is ignored in this case.

[Zini]

Sorry, This cannot be the solution. After this patch you'll never get recent projects added to the list. I had to reject the patch therefore.

That is not what I am experience here. Even with the patch recent projects are still added to the list.

The problem with the unpatched code is that projects are added on opening as well as on saving. Doing only one of them (opening) would be completely sufficient IMHO.

[Zini]

btw. I made a little census regarding the behaviour of the recent file list in various applictions. Adding only on open wins over adding on open and save with 60% (though my sample size is much too small to give representative results).

But considering that you can't save a project without opening it first, not adding the project on save seems to be the right solution, since the project is already guaranteed to be in the recent list (unless it was open indirectly as a part of a workspace, which is exactly the behaviour we want).

[johne53]

I would just qualify that by adding that whatever gets added to the list (on open) it should be restricted to whatever the user actually opened and not to other things that happened to get opened as a consequence. In other words, if I open a workspace containing 6 x projects, only the workspace should get added to the list.

As Zini said, anything that the user opens will be guaranteed to be in the Recent Project list. Therefore the simplest solution might be to have a  user-selectable option whereby the user can decide whether or not to add 'saved' items to the list.

[Zini]

In other words, if I open a workspace containing 6 x projects, only the workspace should get added to the list.

Actually that is exactly how it is handled at the moment.

[johne53]

Yes - I must have missed the last bit of your last sentence (the bit about not adding things which get opened indirectly).

[oBFusCATed]

What about new projects?

[Zini]

Easy. Add them on project creation (Code::Blocks is doing that already)

[johne53]

Did we ever reach a concensus about this? For the time being I'm using the popup menu to save projects and the File menu to save workspaces. However, it would be more consistent if File->Save Projects could work the same as the popup menu (i.e. NOT add projects to the Recent Projects list).

[oBFusCATed]

Another inconsistency:
0. Add some projects to the default workspace
1. Right click on the Workspace (the root of the tree),
2. Then save workspace as
3. Close the workspace
4. The workspace is not added to the recent projects list, but all projects opened in order to be added to the workspace are added to the recent project's list

Also there is a bug:
1. Delete a project from the recent projects in the start page
2. Goto File -> Recent projects and the projects is still there

cb: debugger branch 6344

BTW, the interface for managing workspaces is not intuitive at all. It is pretty confusing and error prone.