[Lazarus] Why does a project have to be open?

[Anders E. Andersen]

Den 17-03-2012 09:48, Mattias Gaertner skrev:
> The idea of the modal dialog is that it sits there and waits for you 
> to tell it what to do. 

I would rather it just sat there and did nothing. No dialog.

>> Why does it have to open a window forcing me to create or open a project?
> There is little it can do without a project.
> This confused some people, so the dialog was added.
>

But isn't this what Delphi does? It should be familiar behaviour that 
you just have an empty ide and you have to go into the project menu to 
create a new project.

You can maybe say that in Delphi you have the html-view where you can 
see a list of recent projects and there is a link to start a new project 
or open an existing one and that this is comparable to that. It is just 
a normal modal form instead of a html view.

I can kind of see it that way, probably. It has a little bit to do with 
all the floating windows in lazarus. I think the one window style of 
delphi is nicer as well. That way this dialog could be just a panel that 
replaced the form editor or code pane when there was no project open. 
That would be my preference.

Anders