Description Erich Gamma 2002-09-26 07:35:30 EDT

As more and more launch configuration types are contributed the launch config 
dialog becomes cluttered. Support for launch config working sets helps to 
filter out a subset of the launch configurations and this is good. 

However, there is no support for filtering out launch config types in a task 
specific way as is supported by the eclipse workbench with perspectives. In the 
Eclipse Platform a Perspective determines the visible actions and views within 
a window. 

There is already support for perspective specific filtering for launch short 
cuts and we should offer a similar mechanism for launch config types. We should 
investigate into something similar for launch config types. For example, when 
I'm in the Java perspective I don't need a prominent presentation of the C/C++ 
launch configs in the LCD. The C++ launch config type could show up in 
an "Other" section of the tree. 

The benefit of a perspective based filtering (where a launch config can define 
the perspectives it applies to) is that the dialog can be presented to the user 
in a more digestable form out-of-the-box, i.e., without that the user needs to 
understand launch config working sets, which are a more advance feature.