[Gambas-user] Naming/Renaming projects

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

This is just minor IDE thing, but it confuses me each time I want to 
start a new project. Guess this hasn't changed in Gambas3, correct me if 
I'm wrong, I just can't check on this machine here at the moment.

In the dialog that asks for the project title and name, the explanations 
for the two input fields don't make the purposes of the input texts 
quite clear to me: Which one is for the directory, and which one means 
the "internal" title for the project?

I do see a distinction here necessary, the directory name may be a brief 
of the project title for instance. Or I want a directory name without 
spaces ("new20") but a title that says "My new project 2.0". But each 
time I start, I'm unsure what to type where, so I tend to type the same 
thing (directory name) into both fields.

The second point is, when I want to open an existing project, I'm asked 
for the directory, right? But the dialog is a file-opening one, so if 
you don't know, you get confused here: Do I have to point to a concrete 
file, or is it ok to point to a directory only?

Then there is a third thing which in turn has to do with my first issue: 
I wanted to rename a project, making a new directory for it (i. e. 
making a copy but also a new name). As I'm not sure what happens when I 
change the name of the project from within the IDE (Save As asks for a 
directory AND filename... so what do I need to give? Both? Only a 
directory name? And what happens to the project title then?) I simply 
made a copy and renamed it by hand.

Loading this new one I was surprised to find the new directory name in 
the IDE title - not the old project title string. This made me think: 
What do I have to give a project title for if it isn't used anyway :-)

So shouldn't these dialogs be thought over in terms of user 
friendliness, what do you think?

Rolf