Bug 471770 - Provide for replacing workspace selector dialog
Summary: Provide for replacing workspace selector dialog
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 4.5   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Reported: 2015-07-03 04:23 EDT by Marvin Fröhlich CLA
Modified: 2015-07-03 11:33 EDT (History)
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Description Marvin Fröhlich CLA 2015-07-03 04:23:35 EDT 
Wouldn't it be very nice to make the workspace selector a list of buttons instead of a combo box? If it get's too large, it could still scroll. But it would be just comfortable to click a single button or link or what ever to open the workspace instead of opening a combo box, selecting an entry and clicking ok.
Comment 1 Brian de Alwis CLA 2015-07-03 11:33:41 EDT 
Hmm.  Buttons aren't editable (needed to specify a new workspace), and combos are a widely-accepted UI mechanism for this kind of user interaction.  Typically people using a fixed set of workspaces create separate launchers that run with '-data …dir…'.

But I can believe that others might like to provide alternative startup dialogs.  So I've retitled this to look into a mechanism on IDEApplication#promptForWorkspace() to provide a replacement dialog.