Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Preferences (topic was touched in "Eclips

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We can definitely do better as mentioned
in several comments already. Just wanted to mention — though not very
user-friendly — there is a mechanism that allows to set most preferences
(those that appear in the preference dialog) per install(s):

eclipse[c].exe  -pluginCustomization
<path to plugin_customization.ini file> 

where the file contains the preferences
[1]. See e.g. https://bugs.eclipse.org/287579
for an example on how to set the encoding and the line separator per install.

Dani

[1] http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.common.git/plain/bundles/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/runtime-options.html


From:      
 Henrik <hrr@xxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 Cross project issues
<cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:      
 15.07.2013 18:45
Subject:    
   [cross-project-issues-dev]
Preferences (topic was touched in "Eclipse smells kind of dead"
thread)
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Hi all,

I know that preferences can be imported/exported.
Yet I find it a bit cumbersome to care about that every time I create a
new workspace.

Wouldn't it make sense to have preferences arranged in several layers similar
to git: system/user/workspace?

Also I could imagine to offer a web page with collections of preference
settings.
They could be ordered in categories (maybe aligned to the packaged Eclipse
installations).
And we could offer a possibility for users to cast their vote to be able
to rank the settings.

-Henrik
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