[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Features and the AboutDialog...

[Daniel Krügler <dsp@xxxxxxx>]

Hello community,

its astonishing to see that there are currently 3 independent threads,
namely

"Feature does not appers in" by ds

"RCP - Displaying Features in About Dialog" by Dave

"AboutDialog does not show feature button although feature exist" by 
Daniel Krügler

which all stumble accross the same problem, which I would like to 
summarize here to get some help for everybody involved. A short 
description of the problem seems to be:

Starting with a plugin-based product one would like to take advantages 
of the feature-based approach. Everything seems to work until you open 
the about dialog provided with ActionFactory.ABOUT and you expect to see 
the third button "Feature Details" in addition to the other two already 
existing "Plug-in Details" and "Configuration Details".

Does anybody have the slightest idea what is missing?

At least for my situation I can provide detailed information:

The corresponding RCP app is also based on a .product definition, it 
already has about.mapping (which was needed to customize the about text)
in the branding plugin. This branding plug-in id is referenced both as
feature id and feature plugin in the currently only one feature project
and is also provided in the .product file which was changed to a 
feature-based one.

I would like to add, that Boris Bokowski made several efforts to help 
all three of us, but we were not successfull. Just providing three 
further files about.ini, about.properties and about.html, as he 
suggested, did notb help. Does anybody know, what needs to be done to 
realize this on the first sight so simple problem? Is a special entry in 
about.ini needed? Or is this a side effect between the .product way for 
branding and the older feature-based one?

Thank you very much for your input,

Daniel Krügler