Bug 518017

Summary:

Create launch group from selection

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Leo Ufimtsev <lufimtse>

Component:

Debug

Assignee:

Platform-Debug-Inbox <platform-debug-inbox>

Status:

NEW ---

QA Contact:

Leo Ufimtsev <lufimtse>

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

daniel_megert, ericwill, markus.duft

Version:

4.7

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

All

OS:

All

See Also:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=492788
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=518652

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Attachments:

Description	Flags
Screenshot of what I mean	none
Add multiple launches	none

Description Leo Ufimtsev

2017-06-08 11:10:23 EDT

I'm a fan of the "Launch Group" feature (and it being merged into platform).

Now, at the moment when I want to create a launch group, I need to select the launch configurations from a list. I then have to search for them from a list.

It would be nice if when I select multiple launch configurations, there'd be a right-click menu option to create a launch configuration from the selection. (See attached screenshot)

I would be most happy to test any gerrit patches before merge.




Footnotes:
Launch groups promoted to platform:
[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=492788
[2] https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.7/platform.php#launch-groups

Deprecate in CDT & remove in photon:
[3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=517722
[4] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=517813

Comment 1 Leo Ufimtsev

2017-06-08 11:10:43 EDT

Created attachment 268826 [details]
Screenshot of what I mean

Comment 2 Markus Duft

2017-06-09 03:02:30 EDT

This sounds like a great Idea :)

While I'm looking into finding some time to start implementing something, are you aware that the dialog to add launches to the group supports multi-selection? I know it's a few more clicks, but you can already add multiple launches to an existing group from there.

Comment 3 Markus Duft

2017-06-09 03:07:49 EDT

Created attachment 268833 [details]
Add multiple launches

Screenshot of adding multiple launches at once

Comment 4 Leo Ufimtsev

2017-06-09 10:57:18 EDT

(In reply to Markus Duft from comment #2)
> This sounds like a great Idea :)
> 
> While I'm looking into finding some time to start implementing something,
> are you aware that the dialog to add launches to the group supports
> multi-selection? I know it's a few more clicks, but you can already add
> multiple launches to an existing group from there.

Thank you for tip. Yea, I've been using the search and multi-select. It works well :-).

It's just it feels like it would be nice to have the option to create a launch group from multiple selected launch configurations, sort of like "create archive" in a file manager when you select multiple files. 
It would also increase visibility of launch group feature.

Comment 5 Markus Duft

2017-06-12 02:26:25 EDT

You're welcome :D Definitely still a good idea, I agree :)