Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Preferences (topic was touched in "Eclips

[Stephan Herrmann <stephan.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>]

How many of you guys are using workspace mechanic [1]?
From my experience it goes a long way in the desired direction.
Given that workspace mechanic is looking for a new maintainer,
maybe "we" want to adopt it in some way?

cheers,
Stephan

[1] http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/workspacemechanic/

On 07/15/2013 07:22 PM, Doug Schaefer wrote:
> It may be hard, but it's is one huge item that we've all run into with our users. It's probably worth the price.
>
> From: Pascal Rapicault <pascal.rapicault@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pascal.rapicault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> Reply-To: Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
> Date: Monday, 15 July, 2013 6:55 PM
> To: Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
> Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Preferences (topic was touched in "Eclipse smells kind of dead" thread)
>
> Internally the preferences are already organized in “scopes” that are:
>
> -Project
>
> -Workspace
>
> -Configuration
>
> -(There is no such thing as “system”)
>
> However the user does not have a say as in the scope in which a value should be stored. This is mostly because creating a UI for
> this is hard (we explored some things back in the 3.0 days when we introduced the scope mechanism).
>
> *From:*cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Henrik
> *Sent:* July-15-13 12:45 PM
> *To:* Cross project issues
> *Subject:* [cross-project-issues-dev] Preferences (topic was touched in "Eclipse smells kind of dead" thread)
>
> 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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