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| WTP 0.7 - Export Preferences - Regression ?? [message #136285] |
Thu, 01 September 2005 20:06  |
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Originally posted by: laurentd75___no.sp_am.yahoo.fr
Hi,
In WTP 1.0 M3 through M5, you could export and import back many workspace
preferences through the "Import" and "Export" buttons in the Preferences
dialogue.
In WTP 0.7, this functionality was moved to the "File > Export" and "File >
Import" wizards, where you have to select the "Preferences" item (I suspect
this is really a change in the Eclipse platform final release itself, not in
WTP... Took me a while to figure this out anyway, though I supposee the
change was documented somewhere ).
In any case, there seems to be a regression here:
In the earlier milestones, the Preferences import/export seemed to work
quite well, and allowed for saving/loading most preferences, including
WTP-related ones, not just those of Eclipse.
By contrast, the capability is much more limited in Eclipse 3.1 + WTP0.7:
you get an additional dialogue where you can elect to save all preferences
or choose amongst a list, but the list only includes preferences related to
CVS repositories, installed JREs, and keyboard shortcuts. Whatever the
option you choose, you will lose many preferences when exporting, including
preferences related to WTP.
Is anybody aware of this ? Is there a particular reason for this limitation,
and any plans to overcome it in a future milestone ? Do I need to fill in a
bug report, and if so, against which component ?
Thanks,
Laurent
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| Re: WTP 0.7 - Export Preferences - Regression ?? [message #136354 is a reply to message #136285] |
Fri, 02 September 2005 09:27  |
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Hi Laurent,
Many of the WTP preference pages still include import/export buttons. For
example you can import/export CSS Templates, DTD Templates, HTML
Templates, JSP Templates, XML Catalog entries, and XML Templates. Perhaps
these need to be converted to use the global preference expoert. However,
using the global export preferences function (as you suggest) only allows
me to export the installed JREs preference, suggesting this is either new
or old functionality.
I'm not sure which approach should be followed at this point. Please go
ahead and open a bug report against the Web Standard Tools component and
someone will have a look. (BTW, if you're not sure which component to use
when opening a bug just guess. The bug will be reassigned as required.)
Thanks,
Lawrence
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| Re: WTP 0.7 - Export Preferences - Regression ?? [message #137184 is a reply to message #136354] |
Wed, 07 September 2005 21:01 |
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Originally posted by: laurentd75___no.sp_am.yahoo.fr
Lawrence Mandel wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
>
> Many of the WTP preference pages still include import/export buttons. For
> example you can import/export CSS Templates, DTD Templates, HTML
> Templates, JSP Templates, XML Catalog entries, and XML Templates. Perhaps
> these need to be converted to use the global preference expoert. However,
> using the global export preferences function (as you suggest) only allows
> me to export the installed JREs preference, suggesting this is either new
> or old functionality.
>
> I'm not sure which approach should be followed at this point. Please go
> ahead and open a bug report against the Web Standard Tools component and
> someone will have a look. (BTW, if you're not sure which component to use
> when opening a bug just guess. The bug will be reassigned as required.)
>
Hi Lawrence,
As usual, I found your feedback very valuable and I'd like to thank you for
that and for your quick response.
You are absolutely right in pinpointing the import/export buttons on some
WTP Preferences pages, but I personally think that this approach is not the
way to go, because it only leads to Preference file clutter. If one only
wants to save selected Preferences, then the "Export checked preferences
only" option in "File > Export > Preferences" seems a much neater approach
to me.
In any case, I have now filed this issue as bug report #109015 on BugZilla.
Thanks again for your feedback & advice,
Laurent
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