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Configurable Project Files in Projects view #6395

Open Saljack opened 1 year ago

Saljack commented 1 year ago

Description

Many Java projects have some other configuration files which are not visible in the Projects view. Users have to switch to the Files view to see or edit these files. Examples of these files are Spotbugs, PMD, .gitignore, README.md, pipeline configurations (.gitlab-ci.yaml), and Kubernetes/helm configurations. It would be nice to have a configuration for the Project Files node that allows users to select which files are visible there.

There is a plugin Show Ignored Files https://github.com/Chris2011/ShowIgnoredFiles that adds a new node Ignored Files & Folders into the Projects view and a user can configure what he wants to see there image I believe that it would help many users to find a edit their project files and this functionality should be provided out of the box.

Use case/motivation

Currently, users have to switch to Files which is not good UX. Users can use Ctrl + Shift + 2 to switch to the Files view but it is annoying because of the switch between views.

Related issues

There is a discussion https://github.com/apache/netbeans/discussions/6387

Are you willing to submit a pull request?

No

Chris2011 commented 1 year ago

I'm definitely with you. As far as I can remember @matthiasblaesing add some functionnality to still show node_modules despite you added this folder to ignore files to just see it, navigate inide of it but out of indexing etc.