On 07/02/2012 12:26 PM, Mathias Kunter wrote:
Hi
all,
I'm currently working with Marc on an issue regarding DSF and CDI
user preferences. We want to add support for handling non-ASCII
strings to the debugger. I've already fixed bug 307311 in order to
generally support this. There however now needs to be some GUI
option to enable the user to comfortably select the character
encoding while debugging. We think this could be nicely handled
like shown in this GUI draft:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=210464
The problem now however is that only DSF uses the shown popup
menu; CDI uses the C/C++ -> Debug preferences page instead. In
order to sort this out, Marc and I thought about moving those CDI
preferences found at this page to the corresponding popup menus in
the Variables / Expressions / etc. views, in the same way as it's
currently handled for DSF. That way we would have a consistent GUI
for both DSF and CDI.
It would be much appreciated if you could let us know your opinion
about this. Is it a good idea? Why / why not? Also, if you're
familiar with the CDI preferences handling, can you tell us how
much work it would be to move the preferences to the popup menus?
I can offer to spend some time on fixing this if the interest is
there. See bug 370462 for details. I really think this adds value
to CDT. Thank you.
Best regards,
Mathias K.
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Hi Mathias,
Although it's a good idea in general to cleanup and unify the
debugger preferences, moving the global settings to the system
menu of a view is not. Those settings are specific for the given
view. See the discussion in
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=370462.
Regards,
Mikhail
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