<p></p>
<p>To make a concrete UI suggestion, I think the file menu could be changed to:</p>
<pre><code>New File
New File (with template) >...
Open Folder as Project...
Open File...
Open Selected File
Recent Files
</code></pre>
<p>... and the <code>Properties</code> entry expanded to a sub menu:</p>
<pre><code>Properties > Current File
Properties > Project Folder   (grayed out if no project folder opened)
</code></pre>
<p>And the <code>Project</code> menu could then eventually just be removed. The new <code>Properties > Project Folder</code> would handle any settings worth keeping in a sort of <code>.geany-settings.yml</code> file in an opened-as-project folder and therefore replace <code>Project > Properties</code> in the long run.</p>
<p>The <code>Documents</code> tab could then be automatically opened if <code>Open Folder...</code> 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 <code>Project Folder</code> tab that otherwise looks like the <code>Documents</code> tab but behaves that way with listing all folder files rather than just the opened tabs.</p>

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