Hi
Where it works (e.g. the Install New Software.... Work with box) DND
from an external broswer is really cool. Sadly good file level DND
seems to be the exception rather than the rule in the UI.
I might hope to be able to DND my preferences file onto the
toolbar/menu/status area.
I might hope to find a drag source that allowed me to DND my
preferences for export, perhaps from the status area.
For line numbers, it's clearly a debatable preference. I like them
about 2% of the time. So I would like a toolar icon. Just like the
show whitespace that GIT forces me to like 90% of the time. Except
of course that the show whitespace icon comes and goes as I change
views, so I either rummage around for the view that shows it or
tunnel down the preferences.
Unfortunately, I'm not yet an experienced enough user to know how to
customize my tool bars so that I could put these missing icons where
I want. Here Microsoft wins. It is easy to DND to customize toolbar
contents. Why not a Help-> show commands, similar to the show
icons, that provides a folded source of DND capabilities?
And while I'm moaning, how do I get rid of the irritating Quick
Access box that I don't understand but which makes my toolbars wider
than my screen?
Regards
Ed Willink
On 15/07/2013 18:11, David M Williams
wrote:
I just wanted to say
"making import/export"
easier I think is the better way to address complaints about
"initial
preferences" .... there is no way that "initial preferences"
will ever satisfy everyone and as for myself, it is always the
first action
I take with a new installation or workspace (to import my own
favorite
preferences, carefully exported in date/time stamped files :).
And, yes,
sometimes its a bit cumbersome ... but ... I'm not sure how it
could be
easier ... though perhaps adding an obvious action on "welcome
screen"
to "import preferences from previous installation or workspace"
would make some sense ... if someone was willing to do the work
:)
If initial preference of line
numbers
displayed or not is the most hated thing about Eclipse ... I'd
say we're
doing great! :) ... but I know that's not the only thing, and
sure, we
can always do better ... if someone is willing to do the work.
:)
From:
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To:
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Date:
07/15/2013 12:47 PM
Subject:
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Preferences
(topic was touched in "Eclipse smells kind of dead"
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Hi all,
I know that preferences can be imported/exported.
Yet I find it a bit cumbersome to care about that every time I
create a
new workspace.
Wouldn't it make sense to have preferences arranged in several
layers similar
to git: system/user/workspace?
Also I could imagine to offer a web page with collections of
preference
settings.
They could be ordered in categories (maybe aligned to the
packaged Eclipse
installations).
And we could offer a possibility for users to cast their vote to
be able
to rank the settings.
-Henrik
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