Bug 518017 - Create launch group from selection
Summary: Create launch group from selection
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Debug (show other bugs)
Version: 4.7   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Debug-Inbox CLA
QA Contact: Leo Ufimtsev CLA
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Reported: 2017-06-08 11:10 EDT by Leo Ufimtsev CLA
Modified: 2017-06-22 12:44 EDT (History)
3 users (show)

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Screenshot of what I mean (137.35 KB, image/png)
2017-06-08 11:10 EDT, Leo Ufimtsev CLA 		no flags Details
Add multiple launches (82.86 KB, image/png)
2017-06-09 03:07 EDT, Markus Duft CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Leo Ufimtsev CLA 2017-06-08 11:10:23 EDT 
I'm a fan of the "Launch Group" feature (and it being merged into platform).

Now, at the moment when I want to create a launch group, I need to select the launch configurations from a list. I then have to search for them from a list.

It would be nice if when I select multiple launch configurations, there'd be a right-click menu option to create a launch configuration from the selection. (See attached screenshot)

I would be most happy to test any gerrit patches before merge.




Footnotes:
Launch groups promoted to platform:
[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=492788
[2] https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.7/platform.php#launch-groups

Deprecate in CDT & remove in photon:
[3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=517722
[4] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=517813
Comment 1 Leo Ufimtsev CLA 2017-06-08 11:10:43 EDT 
Created attachment 268826 [details]
Screenshot of what I mean
Comment 2 Markus Duft CLA 2017-06-09 03:02:30 EDT 
This sounds like a great Idea :)

While I'm looking into finding some time to start implementing something, are you aware that the dialog to add launches to the group supports multi-selection? I know it's a few more clicks, but you can already add multiple launches to an existing group from there.
Comment 3 Markus Duft CLA 2017-06-09 03:07:49 EDT 
Created attachment 268833 [details]
Add multiple launches

Screenshot of adding multiple launches at once
Comment 4 Leo Ufimtsev CLA 2017-06-09 10:57:18 EDT 
(In reply to Markus Duft from comment #2)
> This sounds like a great Idea :)
> 
> While I'm looking into finding some time to start implementing something,
> are you aware that the dialog to add launches to the group supports
> multi-selection? I know it's a few more clicks, but you can already add
> multiple launches to an existing group from there.

Thank you for tip. Yea, I've been using the search and multi-select. It works well :-).

It's just it feels like it would be nice to have the option to create a launch group from multiple selected launch configurations, sort of like "create archive" in a file manager when you select multiple files. 
It would also increase visibility of launch group feature.
Comment 5 Markus Duft CLA 2017-06-12 02:26:25 EDT 
You're welcome :D Definitely still a good idea, I agree :)