Add forceProjectView option to GUI configuration (#800)

Author: ayoub3bidi

docs/Config.md

@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ gui:
       - blue
   returnImmediately: false
   wrapMainPanel: true
+  # Show Projects/Services panels even when not launched from a compose directory
+  forceProjectView: false
   # Side panel width as a ratio of the screen's width
   sidePanelWidth: 0.333
   # Determines whether we show the bottom line (the one containing keybinding

pkg/commands/docker.go

@@ -165,12 +165,16 @@ func NewDockerCommand(log *logrus.Entry, osCommand *OSCommand, tr *i18n.Translat
 	return dockerCommand, nil
 }
 
-// IsProjectScoped reports whether lazydocker should be scoped to a single
-// compose project — either because we're inside a compose directory or
-// because the user passed -p. When false, the project/services panels are
-// hidden and all containers are shown in a flat list.
+// IsProjectScoped reports whether lazydocker should show the project/services
+// panels and filter containers by project. True when inside a compose
+// directory, when -p was passed, or when gui.forceProjectView is enabled.
+// When false, the project/services panels are hidden and all containers are
+// shown in a flat list.
 func (c *DockerCommand) IsProjectScoped() bool {
-	return c.InDockerComposeProject || c.Config.ProjectName != ""
+	if c.InDockerComposeProject || c.Config.ProjectName != "" {
+		return true
+	}
+	return c.Config.UserConfig != nil && c.Config.UserConfig.Gui.ForceProjectView
 }
 
 func (c *DockerCommand) setDockerComposeCommand(config *config.AppConfig) {

pkg/commands/docker_test.go

@@ -66,24 +66,34 @@ func TestNewDockerClientVersionNegotiation(t *testing.T) {
 // TestIsProjectScoped covers the predicate that drives whether the
 // project/services panels appear and whether the containers panel filters by
 // project. The "outside compose dir + -p" case is the regression we fixed
-// after PR #776 silently disabled it.
+// after PR #776 silently disabled it. forceProjectView restores multi-project
+// panels when launched outside a compose directory (issue #800).
 func TestIsProjectScoped(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
 		name                   string
 		inDockerComposeProject bool
 		projectName            string
+		forceProjectView       bool
 		want                   bool
 	}{
-		{"inside compose dir, no -p", true, "", true},
-		{"inside compose dir, with -p", true, "myproject", true},
-		{"outside compose dir, no -p", false, "", false},
-		{"outside compose dir, with -p", false, "myproject", true},
+		{"inside compose dir, no -p", true, "", false, true},
+		{"inside compose dir, with -p", true, "myproject", false, true},
+		{"outside compose dir, no -p", false, "", false, false},
+		{"outside compose dir, with -p", false, "myproject", false, true},
+		{"outside compose dir, forceProjectView", false, "", true, true},
+		{"outside compose dir, forceProjectView and -p", false, "myproject", true, true},
+		{"inside compose dir, forceProjectView", true, "", true, true},
 	}
 	for _, tc := range cases {
 		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			c := &DockerCommand{
 				InDockerComposeProject: tc.inDockerComposeProject,
-				Config:                 &config.AppConfig{ProjectName: tc.projectName},
+				Config: &config.AppConfig{
+					ProjectName: tc.projectName,
+					UserConfig: &config.UserConfig{
+						Gui: config.GuiConfig{ForceProjectView: tc.forceProjectView},
+					},
+				},
 			}
 			assert.Equal(t, tc.want, c.IsProjectScoped())
 		})

pkg/config/app_config.go

@@ -105,6 +105,11 @@ type GuiConfig struct {
 	// of clutter
 	ShowAllContainers bool `yaml:"showAllContainers,omitempty"`
 
+	// ForceProjectView shows the Projects and Services panels even when lazydocker
+	// is not launched from a docker-compose directory (and -p was not passed).
+	// Projects/services are discovered from running container compose labels.
+	ForceProjectView bool `yaml:"forceProjectView,omitempty"`
+
 	// ReturnImmediately determines whether you get the 'press enter to return to
 	// lazydocker' message after a subprocess has completed. You would set this to
 	// true if you often want to see the output of subprocesses before returning
@@ -369,6 +374,7 @@ func GetDefaultConfig() UserConfig {
 				OptionsTextColor:    []string{"blue"},
 			},
 			ShowAllContainers:          false,
+			ForceProjectView:           false,
 			ReturnImmediately:          false,
 			WrapMainPanel:              true,
 			LegacySortContainers:       false,