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Please, do not remove the Navigator view. For me Navigator is the most important unique selling point for Eclipse. Package Explorer as well as Project Explorer provide a much too convoluted view on the projects (I use them at most for five minutes per day). Especially in workspaces with many projects (> 50) they occupy too much space. The synthetic folders do not help me either. A view that shows the file system content, and nothing more, is important.
(In reply to Alexander Veit from comment #1) > Please, do not remove the Navigator view. > > For me Navigator is the most important unique selling point for Eclipse. > > Package Explorer as well as Project Explorer provide a much too convoluted > view on the projects (I use them at most for five minutes per day). > Especially in workspaces with many projects (> 50) they occupy too much > space. The synthetic folders do not help me either. A view that shows the > file system content, and nothing more, is important. See Bug 550385 for this requirement.
What happens to plugins referencing the Navigator View and which are not maintained anymore to switch to an alternative? Will those e.g. stop to work even if already installed? Or will existing installations of the plugins keep working and only new installations fail? What happens during upgrades of Eclipse, when plugins are effectively reinstalled from my understanding? Or will things simply continue to work, plugins can be installed at will and users simply need to add a view manually? I'm using EPIC to develop Perl and just recognized that it uses the Navigator View by default and that this is deprecated. I could easily manually remove that view and use the Project Explorer while things seem to keep working, but wonder how things behave when this view is really missing. https://www.epic-ide.org
(In reply to Thorsten Schöning from comment #3) > What happens to plugins referencing the Navigator View and which are not > maintained anymore to switch to an alternative? Things which are not maintained anymore will eventually break. > https://www.epic-ide.org Please open a ticket for epic.
