Bug 206280 - Support a method to persist eclipse preferences across multiple workspaces
Summary: Support a method to persist eclipse preferences across multiple workspaces
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3   Edit
Hardware: PC All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
QA Contact: Kathy Chan CLA
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Keywords: needinfo
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Reported: 2007-10-15 02:35 EDT by Lahiru Sandakith CLA
Modified: 2009-10-01 09:36 EDT (History)
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Description Lahiru Sandakith CLA 2007-10-15 02:35:23 EDT 
Currently there is no way for the developers to store and retrieve the eclipse preferences across different workspaces. Say for an example user works on two workspaces and he edit the JAVA preferences on one workspace and that user again have to edit the same in the other workspace. 

It will be a improvement and a productive to store and retrieve the preferences. If we can dump all the preferences to an XML etc. we can share that across users as well (example among a project team). This can be another item in the preferences UI to import preferences settings and this will trigger a runtime restart.
Comment 1 Kevin McGuire CLA 2007-10-16 22:33:17 EDT 
Check out File->Export->General->Preferences.
Does this do what you want?

Note: this is in a terrible place, hard to find, entered bug #206559 about that.
Comment 2 Lahiru Sandakith CLA 2007-10-17 00:12:46 EDT 
Kevin , that is the exact thing I want, Thanks for the info. 
Since we have the #206559 resolving this issue as worksforme now. 
Thanks 
Lahiru