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In Eclipse M8 at startup eclipse prompt for a workspace location. It is automatically filled in with the "last created" workspace. This is wrong. It should automatically be filled in with the "last used" value (i.e. the one you chose last time you started eclipse).
This is a symptom of the problem described in bug 55537. A patch has been submitted, but not yet committed for that problem.
*** Bug 57564 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
More comments/suggestions from Chris in bug 57564. ------------ In fact, showing a table with workspace names, and dates last used would be ultimate. Then, I can sort on either name, or access time. I currently have many (test) workspaces, numbered 1 through 34. I like to open the one from last week Thursday. Which one is that? A details section, showing the projects in the workspace, would be very helpful also. That way I can scroll through the list of workspaces, until I see the one that contains the project I want to work with.
Changed the title from "... default should be last used" since that problem has been resolved (bug 57564) and this is now a request for more detail on past workspaces.
After using the workspace launcher for awhile I don't think a more info button is really needed. I tend to give my workspaces names that have enough context to identify them later. My pattern is to name workspaces as bugNumber-shortDesc (e.g., 57440-moreLaunchInfo). I also find this handy when I'm using the file explorer (outside of eclipse) to locate some files in a specific workspace. However, bug 64276 requests (among other things) that it be easier to reuse the workspace launch dialog. I'll add a note there mentioning that clients might want to add buttons (such as this 'More Info') to the dialog. The problem originally described by this bug was fixed with bug 55537. I'm marking this wontfix in response to the second issue that got described.
