Bug 103663

Summary: [Wizards] New Project Wizard on Windows: shouldn't allow entering same name with capital letters
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: James Tan <jtan>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: achapiro, natta, remy.suen
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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proposed patch - apply to org.eclipse.ui.ide none

Description James Tan CLA 2005-07-13 11:14:41 EDT 
On Windows platform, when entering a name in New project wizard, if it is same 
as the name of an existing project but only different in captials, the name 
check mechanism should be able to treat it as an error because the project 
creation will fail eventually for this reason.
Comment 1 Karice McIntyre CLA 2005-08-31 13:45:33 EDT 
Created attachment 26725 [details]
proposed patch - apply to org.eclipse.ui.ide

This patch will not flag this case as an error, but will show a warning
message.  On case insensitive platforms (like Windows) you will still see the
error message when you hit Finish.  On Linux, we want people to see the wanring
because they may decide to share that project, which potentially causes
problems for people on case insensitive platforms.
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2007-09-02 14:55:25 EDT 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=26725) [details]
> proposed patch - apply to org.eclipse.ui.ide
> 
> This patch will not flag this case as an error, but will show a warning
> message.  On case insensitive platforms (like Windows) you will still see the
> error message when you hit Finish.  On Linux, we want people to see the wanring
> because they may decide to share that project, which potentially causes
> problems for people on case insensitive platforms.

The isDirectory() check does not appear to work the way that the patch assumes on Linux.
Comment 3 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-26 16:21:40 EST 
Prakash is now responsible for watching bugs in the [Wizards] component area.
Comment 4 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2010-06-01 02:41:29 EDT 
*** Bug 228838 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:08:32 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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