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Currently the Open Resource(ctrl-shift-r) dialog fills in the matching resources as you type and then as you select different results in matching resources shows the list of folders that resource lives in for all of your projects. The list of folders appears to be alphabetical. Would be nice if this list was did something to try and make the first item in the list more likely to be what you actually want. possibilities.. 1. limited to active working set or filter if one is in place 2. sorted with projects from active working set first and projects not part of active working set second 3. show resources backed by cvs first? In my particular case I have some resources that do exist in several projects. Ultimately only one of these versions really matters (the one that is from cvs). The others get automatically synced from this one spot. But unfortunately the one I actually care about is last in the list alphabetically. I often find myself typing in the resource name in open resource and after selecting the item in top list hitting enter. Same thing applies to Open Type (ctrl-shift-t).
We are unlikely to change the ordering here, since we've come to understand that any order than alphabetical or "open in" order is highly confusing to users. We might be able to improve the efficiency of this dialog by collapsing the file list and folder list into one. For Open Type, you may be able to use the Type Filters pref page (recently moved under Java > Appearance) to hide types in other packages.
It would be great to have the possibility to restrict "Open Resource" to the new (3.2M3) "window-level working sets", in the same way it works for "Open Type", the CVS synchronization or the package explorer. Using eclipse w/ a lot of web app projects everyday, it would be such a great thing to open the "right" web.xml w/o much thinking about the "right" project path... :)
Moving to Kim and cc'ing Susan to consider the last suggestion.
Kim - Dirk is still evolving open type dialog and we will be extracting parts of Open Type and moving upward into the platform (see bug #94382). So if open type is doing the right thing wrt working sets, you can expect that open resource will do the same. I think you can just move this bug to me...
Any progress on this one? It would be really great to have the Window Working Set functionality included in the Open Resource dialog! I also notice more and more people using Eclipse for PHP development (w/ the PHPEclipse plugin) -- and w/out an Open Type dialog (they have to use Open Resouce) it's quite annoying that your are not able to restrict to your "current" project (given the fact that a lot of the files across different projects have the same name). Even Eclipse-newbies asked me how to do this (after I showed them the Window Working Sets) so I think this is not "nice to have" but a quite essential :)
Unfortunately, work on the open resource dialog has been deferred in favor of other items. I don't see this getting into 3.2 unless someone else does some work and submits a patch.
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