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Triggered by bug 528957 comment 5 I found some (very old) issues with current console contributions menu. See screenshots at attachment 272042 [details] and at attachment 272041 [details]. 1) "New Console" is semantically totally different from all other contributions to the menu: it does NOT create a new page inside the console, it creates a new console instance! However the menu is currently neither separated from other contributions nor properly located, and also has no icon. => we should move it always to front, separate from others and give it a "Console" icon. 2) All console contributions aren't sorted in any way, and due bug 528957 are related to the installation order of plugins. This is counter-intuitive. => After 1) is fixed, the remaining consoles are all "equal" and should be placed in alphabetical order - to always have a consistent order and to simplify the visual search for the consoles. I have patches for both points.
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/114768
Created attachment 272047 [details] Fixed console contributions (In reply to Eclipse Genie from comment #1) > New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/114768 The attached picture shows how the menu looks like after this patch. Note the "New Console" icon, position, separator below it and the sorted menus after.
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/114768 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.debug.git/commit/?id=9918ee7e4b95e09fded8c210ad3d5e0f046f1045
Verified using Eclipse SDK Version: Photon (4.8) Build id: I20180121-2000
