Bug 161432 - Organize Run,Debug, and External Tools by project
Summary: Organize Run,Debug, and External Tools by project
Status: ASSIGNED
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Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Debug (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 enhancement with 3 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: JDT-Debug-Inbox CLA
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: 287644 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2006-10-18 12:10 EDT by Paul Austin CLA
Modified: 2009-12-02 15:39 EST (History)
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Description Paul Austin CLA 2006-10-18 12:10:28 EDT 
The current Run, Debug and External Tools display a single menu of all of the items. For large workspaces with many projects it can be difficult to find the item to run from the list. What would be useful is to allow the user to select to have the menus split up by project.

The way this could be done is that all "shared" launch configurations defined in a projects directory would be displayed in a sub menu with the project as a title. Any "local" launch configurations would either be displayed in a "local" sub menu or just at the top level.

Cheers,
Paul
Comment 1 Richard G. Hash CLA 2006-10-20 08:57:02 EDT 
I agree this would be incredibly useful.  When you have half a dozen projects open (say one for each version of your product) and all your Run/Debug entries are replicated half a dozen times each, it becomes a real pain to find the right one. If they were organized per-project, and you could collapse the projects, then it would be simple to arrange them in an easy-to-find fasion.
Comment 2 Michael Rennie CLA 2007-01-30 16:36:27 EST 
no time/resources to address this in the remainder of 3.3, marking for later.
Comment 3 Darin Wright CLA 2009-07-10 11:36:09 EDT 
Re-open to mark as works for me.
Comment 4 Darin Wright CLA 2009-07-10 11:41:47 EDT 
Since 3.4, launch configrations can be found in the "Properties..." for each project. Only configurations assocaited with the selected project appear in the "Run/Debug Settings" property page for each project. From there you can edit/create new ones, etc.

However, what we still need is "Run/Debug" buttons to launch configs from the properties page (so, it's not quite "works for me").
Comment 5 Darin Wright CLA 2009-08-31 10:12:51 EDT 
*** Bug 287644 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Darin Wright CLA 2009-12-02 15:39:23 EST 
Removing 3.6 milestone.