Bug 560584 - Win10 taskbar action to select workspace
Summary: Win10 taskbar action to select workspace
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.15   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 10
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2020-02-27 04:02 EST by Frank Benoit CLA
Modified: 2020-02-27 05:08 EST (History)
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2020-02-27 04:02 EST, Frank Benoit CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Frank Benoit CLA 2020-02-27 04:02:24 EST 
Created attachment 281950 [details]
Taskbar actions

Improve the usability of working with multiple workspaces:

When Eclipse is pinned to the Win10 task bar, a right click onto the symbol shows today some actions. see attachment.

Here it would be helpful to show selectors for the recent workspaces:

- Select workspace ... (opens the selection dialog)
- Start workspace c:\..\ws1 (directly starts a new Eclipse instance with that ws)
- Start workspace c:\..\ws2
Comment 1 Karsten Thoms CLA 2020-02-27 05:08:05 EST 
Please consider contributing the feature. Some pointers:

- How to contribute: https://www.eclipse.org/contribute/ 
- The actions you see there come from Mylyn. You may refer to the Mylyn sources to see how they integrate
- The addition may be specific for Windows. So the addition might be to a windows fragment
- It is likely the Equinox framework where this has to be added, since there are the launchers