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Re: [platform-dev] Should closed project behave like folders?

On 06/27/2013 05:57 PM, Brian de Alwis wrote:
You could add a menu item targeted to closed projects to select a file for Open With.
True, but that's not very nice. I'm not trying to find a way to do it; I'm more brainstorming about what improvements would make sense inside the platform.

Temporarily removing a nature just changes the abilities provided on that project (e.g., removing PDE nature turns the project into a normal Java project), whereas closing a project removes it from consideration.
So having a way to remove a nature would be a nice alternative to closing a project.

You can delete a project without removing the content to remove it from your project list. Does that mean closed-projects are useless?
As part of bug 245412, I've wrote a Project <-> Folder conversion for nested projects, and it seems to me that it fits better to usual development workflow than closed projects. Either the project is shown as a project, with the natures working and so on, or it's shown as a simple folder listing its resources. With this approach, I tend to think that closed projects become useless.
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