RE: [jdt-ui-dev] Experimental Feature: Compress package names in Package

["Scott Stanchfield" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > The most significant information of a package name is on its right side
> > and hence it is often not visible in the Packages view. We are
> therefore investigating how the usage of horizontal space could be
> > improved in the Packages view and have released an experimental feature
> > which allows to compress the package names in the Packages
> view: all parts
> > except the most significant one are replaced by the first letter plus a
> > '*', e.g.: org.eclipse.jdt.ui --> o*.e*.j*.ui

Overall, excellent idea, but I'd opt for not having the "*" -- Netscape does
this for newsgroups in its newsreader. For example, i see

  e.tools
  i.s.v.beans

etc...

Or perhaps configure...

Or better still, allow a "package alias" to be defined that would be stored
with the project. I'm thinking the alias would override the shorthand, so if
I only defined

  badgeif = mil.disa.gcss.gqapi.interfaces.badges
  badgeim = mil.disa.gcss.gqapi.implementation.badges

I would see

  m.d.g.g.i.common
  badgeif
  badgeim

The problem with just the abbreviation is that some packages clash under it
(the two badges packages above are actual examples in some stuff I'm working
on...)

-- Scott