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The Java Packages view frequently shows a lot of redundant information. Although there is at least one attempt to improve this underway, I'm not happy with the approach. What I'd really like is a project property that says "show x for packages that start with y". I could say "show '' for packages that start with 'org.apache.struts'", and I would see ".action", ".taglib", (and hypotheticaly ".foo.action"). But, you would never have the problem where foo.fred.bar and foo.stan.bar are displayed the same.
I assume with "...improve this underway..." you mean the possibility to map package name fragments to some pattern. Correct? Did you try out patterns like "1." (or any other number instead of 1)? This would shorten the redundant information and still allow to distinguish foo.fred.bar (f.f.bar) from foo.stan.bar (f.s.bar) Am I right that you suggest a list with user defined mappings e.g. "org.apache.struts" ==> "" "org.ecplise.jdt." ==> "eclipse_jdt" ... Why would you like to see it as a per-project property and not a global one? There will be no collision since packages are grouped in projects and I think have "A->B" in project1 and "A->C" in project2 would be confusing.
"underway". I know there is a field that is settable. I think someone said on the newsgroup that it was not yet finished. Perhaps my information is wrong. I was unaware that a "pattern" could go there, and I would have never guessed at the form of "1." for the regular expression ".",or ".{1}". If you provide a space for a number of listings, then per-project *might* not be necessary. I'd have to try to get a good feel for it. The reason I suggested per-project, is that *most* projects have a common package prefix, but that varies by project. In the case of eclipse projects, it usually is the project name and appears one-node up on the tree. I'll give you my "real" world example: I've got "com.imperitek.project1" as a prefix on a set of 300 classes in about 30 packages I've got. Then, suddenly we have to integrate with another project in uor company, and we add 15 there packages as "com.imperitek.ext1", and 8 or so as "IPTK" (I'm going to shoot the guy that came up with that one :) . I want to use a per-project prefix of "com.imperitek.project1", because that's the area *I* work in. (good point here - really, I want a per-project-per user setting - don't know if eclipse has that) Having said all that, and then re-read your comment, I think the reason I asked for "per-project", is because I was assuming I was specifying a single substitution, not a list of them.
>I was unaware that a "pattern" could go there, and I would have never guessed at >the form of "1." for the regular expression ".",or ".{1}". There is a hover help which explains this and it will make it into the doc. The feature is still in the "Work in progress" category but additional changes will only come if time permits it. Help on this is welcome. If you'd like to see this feature in 2.0 and have time please implement the list based mapping and send us the code. >*I* work in. (good point here - really, I want a per-project-per user setting - >don't know if eclipse has that) Currently there's no concept of a user in Eclipse (except for VCM operations) and hence no user based settings. All *your* settings are kept in your workspace. I guess if we would add a single mapping per project some people would soon ask for a list. Therefore I would prefer having a global list with mappings. This would also be more consistent with other JDT settings (e.g. "Organize Imports") which are workspace scoped and not per project.
Changed summary
Nothing planned for 2.0
Post 2.0 review: the comment for the pattern has been improved and no other problems were reported against this feature so far. No further work planned. Closing.
reopning to get rid of LATER flag.
No further work planned.
