Bug 489988 - Workspace Summaries
Summary: Workspace Summaries
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 4.4.2   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Keywords: helpwanted
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Reported: 2016-03-19 02:08 EDT by Robert B. Hanviriyapunt CLA
Modified: 2016-03-21 14:59 EDT (History)
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Description Robert B. Hanviriyapunt CLA 2016-03-19 02:08:40 EDT 
Hi.  I was just switching amongst several workspaces.  I copied my Eclipse to several workstations and it has retained paths to old workspaces.  I would like to suggest that when seeking to switch:

1. workspaces listed can report ahead of time that the path does not exist, that a new workspace would need to be created there

2. a target workspace's general summary might be available to give me insight into it's content before I switch to it (perhaps my workspace naming convention was not sufficient enough to tell me that a workspace was not for my current eclipse, that an upgrade would be performed if I selected it, or a count of the projects -- count of projects in the workspace as well as external projects referenced by the workspace)

3. workspace comments?  perhaps visible as part of summary

just my 2¢