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Doc: Clarify that the Projects sidebar view is a build system view
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Change-Id: I7f8f06611cb5bb525d8ec7eb72a74fe926b7e599
Reviewed-by: Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger@qt.io>
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leena-miettinen committed Jan 17, 2017
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\list

\li \uicontrol Projects shows a list of projects open in the current
session.
session and the project files needed by the build system.

\li \uicontrol{Open Documents} shows currently open files.

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\section2 Viewing Project Files

The sidebar displays projects in a project tree. The project tree contains
a list of all projects open in the current session. The files for each
project are grouped according to their file type.
a list of all projects open in the current session. For each project, the
tree visualizes the build system structure of the project and lists all
files that are part of the project.

Some build systems support adding and removing files to a project in \QC
(currently qmake and Qbs). The faithful display of the project structure
allows to specify exactly where a new file should be placed in the build
system.

If the project is under version control, information from the version control system
might be displayed in brackets after the project name. This is currently implemented for
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