Re: [platform-ui-dev] Roles and activities

[Kim Horne <Kim_Horne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The activities are being re-added to
the enabled list because you aren't running with the command line parameter
-activities.  Chris added this so that (by default) all activities
would be enabled for the average user until we ironed out the progressive
disclosure story.  If you add this parameter to your runtime workbench
command line your state will be preserved correctly.  Note that if
you don't use "-activities" you can still edit your enabled set
for a given eclipse session (and you'll see the results of that enablement)
- it just wont be preserved the next time you start your workbench.

Also, the <roleActivityBinding>
has been renamed to <activitybinding> and <activityPatternBinding>
to <patternBinding>.  This is no doubt causing you headaches
as well (if it wasn't when you posted your question).

There is still some debate as to whether
we'll be providing UI for configuring enabled roles.  Personally,
I'd sooner see UI to enable/disable roles than activities since roles are
meant to be a nice way of presenting groups of related activities to the
user.  Additionally, there will be a section of the welcome page (or
similar) that will allow you to define your initial role set when first
activating eclipse.

Jared Burns <jaredburns@xxxxxxx>
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24/10/2003 06:04 PM

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Subject	[platform-ui-dev] Roles and activites

I'm trying to define my own activites, but I'm not
having much luck. I removed 
the "Debugging" activity that's currently provided in org.eclipse.ui
(I 
assume it's just there to play) and defined Debugging in the 
org.eclipse.debug.ui plug-in and Debugging Java in org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui.
I provided activity bindings to link these activities to org.eclipse.debug.*
and org.eclipse.jdt.debug.* respectively. And I also provided role bindings
to link these activities to the Java and PDE roles currently provided by
the 
UI plug-in. The applicable excerpts from my plugin.xml files follow.

When I launch my runtime-workspace, my activities appear in the dialog
under 
the Help menu, but disabling them doesn't have any effect. If I close Eclipse
and relaunch, the activities reappear in the "enabled" bucket
in the dialog.

Is there a bug here or am I doing something totally wrong? Also, I don't
see 
anywhere to define your active roles. Am I missing something or is there
no 
UI for configuring this yet?

Thanks,
- Jared

##########################
# From org.eclipse.debug.ui.plugin.xml:
##########################
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.activities">
      <activity
            name="Debugging"
            id="org.eclipse.debug.ui.debugging">
      </activity>
      <activityPatternBinding
            inclusive="true"
            activityId="org.eclipse.debug.ui.debugging"
            pattern="org.eclipse.debug.*">
      </activityPatternBinding>
   </extension>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.roles">
      <roleActivityBinding
            activityId="org.eclipse.debug.ui.debugging"
            roleId="org.eclipse.roles.javaRole">
      </roleActivityBinding>
      <roleActivityBinding
            activityId="org.eclipse.debug.ui.debugging"
            roleId="org.eclipse.roles.pdeRole">
      </roleActivityBinding>
   </extension>

##########################
# From org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui.plugin.xml:
##########################
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.activities">
      <activity
            name="Debugging Java"
            description="Debugging Java
program(s)"
            parentId="org.eclipse.debug.ui.debugging"
            id="org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui.debugging.java">
      </activity>
      <activityPatternBinding
            inclusive="true"
            activityId="org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui.debugging.java"
            pattern="org.eclipse.jdt.debug.*">
      </activityPatternBinding>
   </extension>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.roles">
      <roleActivityBinding
            activityId="org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui.debugging.java"
            roleId="org.eclipse.roles.javaRole">
      </roleActivityBinding>
      <roleActivityBinding
            activityId="org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui.debugging.java"
            roleId="org.eclipse.roles.pdeRole">
      </roleActivityBinding>
   </extension>

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