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Now that EFS is in place we need a way in the user interface to access non local file systems. To not have additional button for each file system on the various dialogs (as we have now for external and workspace internal files) I propose that we have a combined file selection dialog which allows to pick files and folders from: - the workspace - the local file system - any external file system contributed via EFS
Duplicate of Bug 116327?
Tod, I don't know if you want to consider this a duplicate of your existing bug or a dependent bug that deals only with the file dialog issue.
The dialogs that can access EFS can do this using FileSystemContributor#browseFileSystem(String initialPath, Shell shell)
Tod, has there been any change to the new project wizard as described in comment 0? If not, can you set the bug to later or wontfix?
Right - I see your point. Lets mark it REMIND as it is not such a bad idea - a lot of ourt wizards need revisting now.
Marking REMIND
reopening as this may be added as part of the extended file system support toime permitting
Tod, this is the other big EFS-related piece. Lower priority than the import wizards though, I would say.
I am currently running into this myself. I need an EFS-capable browsing dialog that can be invoked from property pages and the like. Right now using FileSystemContributer.browseFileSystem() is really clunky, because it invokes its own dialog. So in my case, I'd have to go to my directory property in the property page, hit "Browse...", go to a dialog where I can select the filesystem I want to use, then hit another "Browse..." button to invoke the filesystem specific browse dialog. Ugh. And it's too much clutter if for every property I have to put the filesystem dropdown next to my browse button in order to eliminate the need for the first dialog. So... what to do? So far my best idea is that you would need to have a generic dialog which houses the filesystem dropdown, and then have each FilesystemContributer contribute a Composite for the rest of the UI that would appear below it in the dialog when that filesystem is selected in the dropdown. Anyone else have an idea of how they think this should look? Even this seems sort of hacky to me but I couldn't think of a better way that would still provide the required flexibility, because to my mind, we really have no idea what a given filesystem will need to present UI-wise. I thought briefly about making a generic dialog that would just populate the browse tree by doing IFileSystem.fetchFileTree(), but the problem there is that you may not know how to get the IFileStore for the filesystem root.
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
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