[news.eclipse.platform] Re: something annoying (can only enable 1 plugin

[dingfelder <dingfelder_nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

I tried that route and it made even more of a mess of my system

here is the scenerio:

1.  install eclipse.
2.  add tptp
    a couple days go by...
3.  add cdt
    a couple days go by...
4.  remove tptp
    a couple days go by...
5.  add maven, mylyn, subversion + more
    a couple days go by...

now I want to get tptp back...

If I go back to step 3, before I removed tptp, i lose all the changes 
from step 5, which is not acceptable, as am heavily using the features 
from those plugins.

I see the ability to enable or disable "features" instead of plugins as 
critical and missing from eclipse, unless it is there and I do not 
understand how something works.

For instance, (note:  I am picking on tptp here because it is the 
feature that started this mess for me, but it equally applies to other 
features as well) how do you *temporarily* disable tptp?  Currently, 
there are over 90 tptp plugins listed in my product configuration 
screen... manually disabling them all is easy (multi-select them and hit 
disable) but enabling them is a MAJOR PAIN.

I think there should either be:
1.  a parent node for the entire feature in the product config page, 
where the entire set of plugins can be disabled or enabled
or
2.  a node under the window/preferences menu for tptp with an 
enable/disable checkbox, or some such functionality

Thoughts?


Alex Blewitt wrote:
> There's a configuration history; you should be able to switch back to a previous configuration before you disabled all the changes.
>
> Alex.