| [platform-ui-dev] Should Platform define more content types? |
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Hi all, As I'm working on some completion/hover that would give some Image preview, I'm wondering whether Platform UI should actually define a root content type for Images, just like it does for text, and also defined most usual children: jpeg, jpg, png, gif, bmp. This would make it pretty easy to test uniformly in the IDE whether a given resource is an image: IContentType imageContentType = Platform.getContentTypeManager().getContentType("org.eclipse.core.runtime.image"); Platform.getContentTypeManager().getContentType(proposalResource.getName()).isKindOf(imageContentType); and it would make those content-types available by default in the content-type page, making it more accessible for users to tweak the editor association. Also, adding new images format would be "only" a matter of adding a content-type rather than changing multiple pieces of code checking for extensions. Note that the idea is simply to define the content-type, not to associate it with any viewer/editor at the moment. Do you think it's worth opening a bug and trying to add it in future releases? Cheers, |