Re: [platform-ui-dev] Recent Changes to Workspace Launcher Dialog

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please move the discussion to the bug.

Best regards, Lars

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "Select a directory“ is by far less helpful than "Select a workspace“.
> Workspace is a term that needs to be learned but is has a well-defined
> meaning. „Directory“ is not. It’s like using "Open Dialog“ instead of „Open
> Preferences“ or „Open About“. I’d stick with Workspace in the title instead
> of directory.
>
> +1. "Select a workspace" is IMO better. If we want to have both, I believe
> "Select a workspace directory" or "Select a directory as workspace" are good
> as well.
>
> The Term „your data“ is much more vague than the previous explanation. I
> understand that, from a pure technical perspective, the workspace folder
> doesn’t have to store your data. But I does so by default, and thus, it’s
> okay to say so. In addition it actually stores the mapping which projects
> exist, are opened, closed etc. So, in a more abstract sense it’s still true.
>
> What about "Eclipse uses this directory to store configuration and internal
> data about your projects." ?
> At that point, there is no need to tell users whether this will be the
> default folder for new projects IMO, this is already shown in the project
> wizards.
>
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