Re: [platform-ui-dev] Planning for 4.8

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I assume that you know there's File > Open File... Just wanted to mention it here for others.

What I have in mind is https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=489799

Currently, if one does File > Open File... > MyClass.java, they get the JDT editor with very weak editor features, not much better than gedit or vim; because JDT only fully works with a project model well defined. In the case of opening a Java file in Eclipse IDE, what the users most likely want is rich Java edition, and the result of "Open File..." is not giving the rich edition they expect.

The idea is to implement what the user expects from "Open File...": rich edition, usually requiring project discovery.

FYI, VSCode Java plugin does that -discover the project model when opening a plain file to enable rich assist-; and the effect is that newcomers who don't know a thing about VSCode nor Eclipse IDE believe VSCode is better for Java because it has more features enabled after "Open File..."