[eclipse-dev] RCP Apps and Modifying Eclipse.org Plug-ins (forked from m

[Pat McCarthy <patmc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff said:
>>What do you mean about being able to edit
plugins for RCP apps.  Are you 
>>suggesting that people go and modify the code or manifests for
other 
>>plugins?  While techincally possible this is definitely not
recommended. 
>>Its not clear what that capability has to do with RCP apps either.
 If you 
>>modify some plugin you don't own, you basically void its warranty/testing
>>and potentially impact all other consuming plugins.  Sure,
if your app 
>>(RCP or otherwise) is completely closed or under your control,
knock 
>>yourself out.  This is not a practice I would feel comfortable
promoting 
>>or relying on.

I'm in line with Ed as you can't get
what you want/need (which is always defined by the builder of an RCP app)
with the current packaging of Eclipse.

Some actually want quite a bit of the
native workbench function (without core.resource) in their application.
Best way to learn how to run/add much
of this is to explore the Eclipse IDE version of a WorkbenchAdvisor and
find ways of adding common menu tree's back into a private RCP application.
But what you want is not always ready/where
you want it.

Examples:
Wanting to add parts of the Update Manager
triggered bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=84695. 

Adding in the common Preferences dialog,
and having a decent set of plug-ins (RCP base+ui.views+private code) nets
out to exactly ZERO pref pages. Where are the common pages for Workbench
Appearance, Colors/Fonts, and so on?  In the org.eclipse.ui.ide plug-in
of course (not where we can reuse them without bringing in a bit more than
we want from that plug-in).

I'm sure Ed can/has added to this list.


What are the chances of getting things
that are not quite IDE specific (like general purpose preference pages)
in a plug-in such that we don't have to hack apart ui.ide to get them in
our Workbench-like RCP applications?


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