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The navigator/package/project explorers take up a lot of room in the workbench, especially as we have important info like Gerrit Branch as part of the text decorations . It's also quite difficult to scan the list for what's different in the names. Here's a proposal for improving that: Give user an option to select a shortened names label provider. That would use the short hand we're all used to, e.g. given the following set of projects: org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.core org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.ui org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.net org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.workbench org.eclipse.mylyn.discovery.core org.eclipse.mylyn.discovery.ui org.eclipse.mylyn.tasks.core org.eclipse.mylyn.tasks.ui "depth 3" would change the presentation to: o.e.m.commons.core o.e.m.commons.ui o.e.m.commons.net o.e.m.commons.workbench o.e.m.discovery.core o.e.m.discovery.ui o.e.m.tasks.core o.e.m.tasks.ui and you might even have an option to filter them out (or present hierarchically), e.g.: commons.core commons.ui commons.net commons.workbench discovery.core discovery.ui tasks.core tasks.ui Especially if it were easy to toggle the affordance. This wouldn't be as useful for short/diverse project structures (like platform, jdt...) but for working with projects like "org.springframework.ide.eclipse.." it would save a lot of space / visual garbage (120px by my calculation). It's possible I could come up w/ a patch if folks thought this might be useful and have a decent chance of making it in. We're getting pretty late in the cycle this year, tho..
