Consider showing project-relative paths in more places
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Description
When opening a file in the project (using Ctrl+P), the paths shown are essentially project-relative (starting with one of the directories added to a project).
It would probably make sense to show such a project-relative file name whenever possible, since the rest of the path is often irrelevant. Affected places could be:
- Tool tips on tabs
- Value of file properties
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start from the Ctrl+P project-relative path behavior, then trace how paths are presented in tab tooltips and file properties. Done means those places show project-relative file names whenever possible, while retaining useful paths when a relative path cannot be used.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100