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 <h...@protos.de> To: Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org> Date: 15.07.2013 18:45 Subject: [cross-project-issues-dev] Preferences (topic was touched in "Eclipse smells kind of dead" thread) Sent by: cross-project-issues-dev-boun...@eclipse.org 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 _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
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