Re: [platform-ui-dev] Re: first phase of ResourceNavigator end of life i

[Markus Keller <markus_keller@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I fully agree with Johan. I have exactly
the same use case, and I often do Navigate > Show In > Navigator
from the Package Explorer to see the "Resource" view and context
of the selected item.

Markus

From:	Johan Compagner <jcompagner@xxxxxxxx>
To:	platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:	2009-03-10 10:31
Subject:	[platform-ui-dev] Re: first phase of ResourceNavigator end of life        is        done

---

> applications out there that use it (or at least used to). My suggestion
for
> an orderly death would be:
>
> - Deprecate all APIs immediately but leave everything in place.
> - Make sure none of the SDK perspectives contain the Navigator in
their
> default layout.
> - Advertise that it is deprecated and encourage people to move to
CNF
> - Immediately after the 3.5 release, split the navigator view and
APIs out
> of org.eclipse.ui.ide into a separate plug-in.
> - At some point remove this plug-in from the platform feature (perhaps
in
> 3.6, or else in 4.0). org.eclipse.ui.ide version would need to bump
to 4.0
> at this point.
>
> This way the view is still available for people who still need it
for
> whatever reason. And, with the slightly higher bar of having it in
a
> separate bundle outside the platform, there will be strong incentive
for
> people to move to the Project Explorer.
>
> Note there are likely bits and pieces of API outside the navigator
API
> package that will also need deprecating. IPageLayout.ID_RES_NAV comes
to
> mind, for example.
>
> Next step: orderly death of the package explorer  :)
>
>    

hmm now i have a Navigator and a Package explorer side by side in almost
all my perspectives

Will this mean that when you kill both that i have to use a single view
(because you cant have multiply copies of the project explorer in 1 
perspective)
to do the same thing?

For example Package explorer does filter quite a lot of files that i 
sometimes just have to go to. Or i dont want that packages type of 
viewing for a certain file
Now i just take 1 of the 2.

So to have this behavior in 1 View, the project explorer, we should 
really have a very very quick way of switching
between packages view and just resource view in side that Project 
explorer and then not what i have to do now, through menu's and dialogs
and checkboxes and ok buttons...

johan


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