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200406110010 Window->Preferences--Workbench There are a couple of preferences that are hard to interpret: 1) Always run in background ... Always run WHAT in the background? - the Workbench? (after all, this is the Workbench preference page) - the build? (but build always runs in the background...) - programs? (after all, it's an ide... <g>) - long-running operations? (if that's it, please say so...) 2) Refresh workspace automatically ... Refresh workspace automatically WHEN? - every couple of minutes? - after a build? - after something runs?
This would be something we should look at in the help doc
There are currently no plans to work on this although we would be happy to review a patch
I'd be happy to provide a patch if I had any clue what was supposed to be running in the background or not. <g> Note that "Always run in background" is now the first item on the "General" page, so the problem is even worse now. What runs in the background when this is checked? "Refresh automatically" is now on the "Workspace" page. I see that there is a "Workspace save interval (in minutes):" field. Should this field say "Workspace save/refresh interval (in minutes):" ? Surely the workspace can't be refreshed in realtime - how would eclipse know that someone has made a change in the file system? It must have to go out and look... does it do that every "save interval" minutes?
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
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