Bug 5856 - Shortcut to Project Properties
Summary: Shortcut to Project Properties
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P2 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Nick Edgar CLA
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Keywords: usability
: 24886 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2001-11-13 13:26 EST by Howard M. Lewis Ship CLA
Modified: 2002-10-17 15:43 EDT (History)
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Description Howard M. Lewis Ship CLA 2001-11-13 13:26:57 EST 
I think it is too hard to get to Project Properties.

Justification:  Our project is not in CVS (yet), but in PVCS (ick) and there 
can be manual
work involved after synchronizing (outside of Eclipse).  Because of the size
and depth, I've often used the "Go Into" functionality of the packages view.

If I want to edit my project properties (i.e., to update build paths) I have to 
do
a lot of unwanted navigation just to get the top level project visible in
the packages view (or switch to a different perspective) just to right-click
it.  And yet, there's a nearly empty project menu up there, just dying for a
"Properties..." menu item.
Comment 1 Erich Gamma CLA 2001-11-13 16:12:26 EST 
If we do something here we have to coordinate with the platform UI and the 
Navigator. It is definitly true that the project's properties dialog carries a 
lot of relevant information.

Moving to Platform UI for comment
Comment 2 Kevin Haaland CLA 2002-04-17 16:46:28 EDT 
A toplevel "Project" menu item is part of the latest 2.0 builds. I agree with 
Erich, it would be an interesting enhancement to add a menu item to get the 
properties dialog.
Comment 3 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-04-18 14:21:57 EDT 
We now have a File / Properties retargetable menu item (it even has an 
accelerator: Alt+Enter).
It would be confusing to also have Properties in the Project menu.
Could add a button to the Info property page to open the Project properties.
Should discuss with the usability team.
Comment 4 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-05-17 22:26:48 EDT 
Will not fix.  There is a File / Properties menu with Alt+Enter accelerator, 
and a context menu item for Properties in the Navigator and Packages views.
Changing project properties is not done often enough to warrant another menu 
item.
Comment 5 Sonia Dimitrov CLA 2002-10-17 15:43:32 EDT 
*** Bug 24886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***