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Doc: Clarify that the Projects sidebar view is a build system view
Change-Id: I7f8f06611cb5bb525d8ec7eb72a74fe926b7e599 Reviewed-by: Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger@qt.io>
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\li \uicontrol Projects shows a list of projects open in the current
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session.
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session and the project files needed by the build system.
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\li \uicontrol{Open Documents} shows currently open files.
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\section2 Viewing Project Files
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The sidebar displays projects in a project tree. The project tree contains
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a list of all projects open in the current session. The files for each
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project are grouped according to their file type.
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a list of all projects open in the current session. For each project, the
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tree visualizes the build system structure of the project and lists all
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files that are part of the project.
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Some build systems support adding and removing files to a project in \QC
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(currently qmake and Qbs). The faithful display of the project structure
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allows to specify exactly where a new file should be placed in the build
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system.
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If the project is under version control, information from the version control system
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might be displayed in brackets after the project name. This is currently implemented for

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