[news.eclipse.tools.cdt] Re: The purpose of "favourite" settings for lau

[toralf.lund@xxxxxxx (Toralf Lund)]

Jonah Graham wrote:

> Toralf Lund wrote:
> > What exactly is the purpose of the "favourites" mechanism for launch 
> > (run/debug) configurations? I mean, the only answer I've come up with so 
> > far is "to control whether items are displayed above or below a 
> > separator in the same menu", but this doesn't seem like much...
> >
> > Just wondering...
> >
> > - Toralf

> Hi Toralf,

> The answer you have come up with is correct, it is to control which side 
> of the separator it comes up on. But that implies a couple of other 
> things. 1) Favourites always appear on the menu, below the separator
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>

> I do agree with you, it isn't a big feature, and doesn't do much. But 
> the little time savers like this is what makes Eclipse such a wonderful 
> development environment.
The thing is, I'm far from sure that all these time savers are actually 
saving time at all. I believe that in general, there is a limit to how 
many "time saving" features you can add to a user interface before they 
actually start slowing users down - because of the sheer number of UI 
items to keep track of and the amount of information to take in. I'm 
wondering if not Eclipse has crossed that line...

- Toralf