[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Easier project creation (#2245)

[Ellie]

To make a concrete UI suggestion, I think the file menu could be changed to:

```
New File
New File (with template) >...
Open Folder as Project...
Open File...
Open Selected File
Recent Files
```
... and the `Properties` entry expanded to a sub menu:
```
Properties > Current File
Properties > Project Folder   (grayed out if no project folder opened)
```
And the `Project` menu could then eventually just be removed. The new `Properties > Project Folder` would handle any settings worth keeping in a sort of `.geany-settings.yml` file in an opened-as-project folder and therefore replace `Project > Properties` in the long run.

The `Documents` tab could then be automatically opened if `Open Folder...` is done, and list the opened project folder automatically with all its files (rather than just the opened ones), or if you don't want to expand it like that, there could be a separate `Project Folder` tab that otherwise looks like the `Documents` tab but behaves that way with listing all folder files rather than just the opened tabs.

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