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Are enabled activities persisted? [message #330620]

Tue, 05 August 2008 16:22

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: brianogorman.yahoo.com

I cannot find anything in the doc re this.

If I enable an activity using
IWorkbenchActivitySupport.setEnabledActivities(), will the activity be
automatically enabled when I restart Eclipse? (or my Eclipse based
application).

Re: Are enabled activities persisted? [message #330630 is a reply to message #330620]

Wed, 06 August 2008 07:07

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: brianogorman.yahoo.com

Brian O'Gorman wrote:
> I cannot find anything in the doc re this.
>
> If I enable an activity using
> IWorkbenchActivitySupport.setEnabledActivities(), will the activity be
> automatically enabled when I restart Eclipse? (or my Eclipse based
> application).

Ok. <one little plugin later>. Seems they are.

Does anyone know if this is something new in 3.4 or if it always was so
(just curious).

Re: Are enabled activities persisted? [message #330642 is a reply to message #330630]

Wed, 06 August 2008 23:23

Eclipse User

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:07:18 +0100, Brian O'Gorman wrote:
I'm pretty sure it was the same in 3.3. We've tried using activities to
hide plugins from some users. We found that a workspace from one user,
who had visibility of the plugin, when used by another user allowed
access to the plugin. Points out that activities shouldn't be used for
security and that eclipse lacks robust access control.

Craig

> Brian O'Gorman wrote:
>> I cannot find anything in the doc re this.
>>
>> If I enable an activity using
>> IWorkbenchActivitySupport.setEnabledActivities(), will the activity be
>> automatically enabled when I restart Eclipse? (or my Eclipse based
>> application).
>
>
> Ok. <one little plugin later>. Seems they are.
>
> Does anyone know if this is something new in 3.4 or if it always was so
> (just curious).

Re: Are enabled activities persisted? [message #330863 is a reply to message #330642]

Thu, 14 August 2008 13:43

Eclipse User

Craig Foote wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:07:18 +0100, Brian O'Gorman wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it was the same in 3.3. We've tried using activities to
> hide plugins from some users. We found that a workspace from one user,
> who had visibility of the plugin, when used by another user allowed
> access to the plugin. Points out that activities shouldn't be used for
> security and that eclipse lacks robust access control.

Eclipse has no access control at all. Activities are for progressive UI
element disclosure (think novice->intermediate->advanced). They can be
used to remove most UI elements (and there was new enabledWhen
activities added in 3.4 that are state based and cannot be changed by
the user, https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=201052 ). That
can get you part of the way there, but I don't think it's still true
"security".

There has been some good work on the security front down in the equinox
layer in 3.4, but (AFAIK) focused first on trusting code and secondly on
user security. But that work has not made it up to the UI layer.

Later,
PW

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