Open recent project in new window is inconsistent #21245
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jliverman
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I just realized that method 1 above has this text:
whereas methods 2 & 3 have this (the exact opposite):
This seems like #20176 or #17765 (see also #20201) were never really fixed. But the menu that opens otherwise looks the EXACT SAME. This is so confusing to the end-user... |
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Yeah this is less than ideal. I believe the thought is that the title bar is a "Project Switcher" and File->Open Recent ( There a need for a design review to better differentiate/refine these. I think it might also be appropriate to support MacOS style For example, if there was real-time feedback when holding option (or command) which changed button labels it would be clearer which action you were about to do. Thanks for reporting. |
notpeter
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@notpeter Again, this is less about the "tooltip" text that appears and more about the fact that when you follow the tooltip instructions to open a project in a new window it does NOT open in a new window! The ability to consistently get projects to open in a new window (or not) is what I want, regardless of whether it matches the tooltip text. But at this time neither enter or cmd-enter result in consistent behavior for me :( |
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I also have noticed the strange behavior of this functionality in Linux. For me there seems to be two different versions of those lists - the one appearing when I open zed from terminal and the other one when I open it from searching in Gnome shell. I would like this to give same list in Linux as well if possible. |
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Again, my main concern is that the option for "opens a new one" (a new window) does not work consistently. That is, it opens in the SAME window most of the time for me! But as I stated, I can somehow get it into a "mode" where it finally does what I ask it to do (i.e. what it says it will do) and open the project in a new window. But I have no idea what I am doing to convince it to enter/exit this "mode" where it actually does what the help text says it will do... I just want the editor to work as it says it will work. If it says "enter to open in this window" and "cmd+enter to open a new one" then just do that. But if it's reversed then do that. I don't care so much that all of the ways to get to the recent projects window don't have the same help ("tooltip") text. I just want Zed to do what its own text says it will do! Just please do what you say you're gonna do, Zed!! Stop lying to me!!! |
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Describe the bug / provide steps to reproduce it
I do not know how to reproduce this bug. But if you continue to attempt to open a recent project in a new window via the 3 means available to you (see below) you will inevitably run into it.
When I get into a "mode" where it will accept enter (#1) or cmd-enter (#2 & #3) as opening the project in a new window then it seems to work as I expect repeatedly, regardless of how I opened the "Open recent project" window (see the 3 methods above). But if I ever get it into a "mode" where it ignores the new window directive (i.e. it just opens the project in the current window anyway) then it seems to retain that behavior for repeated attempts 🤷♂️ Again, I have no idea what I am doing to switch between these "modes" of operation.
I also tried a workaround from issue #17765 in which I added the following keybind:
{ "context": "Workspace", "bindings": { "alt-ctrl-o": [ "projects::OpenRecent", { "create_new_window": false } ] } }and it did not seem to help at all.
Environment
Zed: v0.162.4 (Zed)
OS: macOS 14.7.1
Memory: 16 GiB
Architecture: x86_64
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