[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Improve user experience when creating new projects, attempt 2 (PR #3042)

[elextr]

>  @techee suggestion to look at the default on other editors sounds good.

AFAICT for Eclipse the "project" is mostly stored in a directory with the project name in `~/EclipseWorkspace` but there are also some dotfiles in the tree as well which seem to point to the workspace the tree is part of (its XML so I could only look quickly :stuck_out_tongue: ). 

For Vscode everything is in the tree, projects ("workspaces" in VS speak) can be opened by specifying the root directory of the tree or if there are multiple workspaces in that directory then the workspace file.  A recents list also allows this by name not path.

Like @eht16 I don't use Geany projects much, (C++ coding is in Eclipse or Vscode so no need for Project Organiser, Geany is for editing marked up documents and non C++ languages) but I use separate configuration directories as "projects" usually kept in the directory above the source tree (and so out of git).  This allows any setting to be per project and to have several Geanys open with separate "project"s safely.

I know project creation confuses/annoys users, so if people who use projects find this to be a step in the right direction then great, further improvements can be added later.

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