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What's the "Ctrl Contrib (Bottom)" widget? [message #317463]

Wed, 04 July 2007 04:13

Eclipse User

Hi,

in Eclipse 3.3, CDT 4.0 I see a new widget in the bottom strip of Eclipse
containing "Ctrl Contrib (Bottom)" with a blue background color. The
associated tooltip is "Ctrl Contrib Tooltip".

What's this? It seems to be inactive, it has no context menu and doesn't
respond to a mouse click. I haven't in seen in the latest snapshots.

Jens

Re: What's the "Ctrl Contrib (Bottom)" widget? [message #317500 is a reply to message #317463]

Thu, 05 July 2007 09:43

Eclipse User

Jens Seidel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in Eclipse 3.3, CDT 4.0 I see a new widget in the bottom strip of Eclipse
> containing "Ctrl Contrib (Bottom)" with a blue background color. The
> associated tooltip is "Ctrl Contrib Tooltip".
>
> What's this? It seems to be inactive, it has no context menu and doesn't
> respond to a mouse click. I haven't in seen in the latest snapshots.

you must have the examples feature installed ... that's one of the
platform ui example plugins.

Go to Help>Software Updates>Manage Configuration, find the examples
feature, and disable it (and restart). It should go away.

PW

The Eclipse Project Updates (Was: Re: What's the "Ctrl Contrib (Bottom)" widget?) [message #317504 is a reply to message #317500]

Thu, 05 July 2007 10:23

Eclipse User

Paul Webster wrote:

> Jens Seidel wrote:
>> in Eclipse 3.3, CDT 4.0 I see a new widget in the bottom strip of Eclipse
>> containing "Ctrl Contrib (Bottom)" with a blue background color. The
>> associated tooltip is "Ctrl Contrib Tooltip".
>>
>> What's this? It seems to be inactive, it has no context menu and doesn't
>> respond to a mouse click. I haven't in seen in the latest snapshots.
>
> you must have the examples feature installed ... that's one of the
> platform ui example plugins.
>
> Go to Help>Software Updates>Manage Configuration, find the examples
> feature, and disable it (and restart). It should go away.

Ah, thanks, you're right! I searched for *new* plugins and found "The
Eclipse Project Updates". I assumed there are already updates available
for v3.3 and installed these!

Isn't "The Eclipse Project Updates" a strange name since these are no
updates?

Jens

Re: The Eclipse Project Updates (Was: Re: What's the "Ctrl Contrib (Bottom)" widget?) [message #317619 is a reply to message #317504]

Tue, 10 July 2007 09:47

Eclipse User

Jens Seidel wrote:
>
> Isn't "The Eclipse Project Updates" a strange name since these are no
> updates?

Add-ons are also called updates. and the examples and releng-tool count
as Eclipse Platform add ons.

PW

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