Summary: | Use default workspace for new Eclipse instances instead of prompting the user for the WS | ||
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Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel> |
Component: | UI | Assignee: | Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | alexander.fedorov, daniel_megert, Lars.Vogel, loskutov, ma.becker, mistria |
Version: | 4.12 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | All | ||
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Description
Lars Vogel
2019-05-22 05:20:07 EDT
It will improve user experiance a lot. "Why do I need to go through workspace selection and project creation to just open a file?" - is the very commmon concern regarding Eclipse. +1 for that. However, I'm wondering whether this wouldn't make more sense in EPP. Is a change required in Platform to enable through a .product? (In reply to Mickael Istria from comment #2) > +1 for that. > However, I'm wondering whether this wouldn't make more sense in EPP. Is a > change required in Platform to enable through a .product? Yes, the above logic is AFAIK not yet implemented. I think just adding `-data @user.home/eclipse-workspace` to the program args in .product file would do the work. (In reply to Mickael Istria from comment #4) > I think just adding `-data @user.home/eclipse-workspace` to the program args > in .product file would do the work. No, this will never show the ws dialog. In theory should be OK, but if I remember right, we had this request/discussion already in bugzilla. Whoever will implement this: make sure this feature is configurable and can be disabled. (In reply to Lars Vogel from comment #0) > Tools like Visual Studio code simply start without prompting the user to > select a workspace. I personally like that and use code for simply editor > functions due to that reason. > > I suggest that we also change our WS selection logic to the following: > 0.) use the one specified by -data > 1.) If no WS have been selected in the past, use a default one and start > Eclipse The problem will be to define what "default" means. Ask 3 Windows users and you get 3 different answers where they would expect the (default) workspace to be put. |