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Bug 123230

Summary:	[WorkbenchLauncher] Creates workspace even if pressing cancel
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Peter Larsen <peblpebl>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Prakash Rangaraj <prakash>
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3	CC:	dj.houghton, ECOMAR, frederic.gurr, jsg8pitt, mrazec, pwebster
Version:	3.1.1	Keywords:	bugday, helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Peter Larsen

2006-01-10 06:44:21 EST

The Workspace Launcher asks for a default workspace at startup, and it is always created even when I press cancel (and stops eclipse). The workspace contains nothing but the .metadata directory.

Comment 1 Edoardo Comar

2007-11-16 07:25:46 EST

see also bug 179108.
happens on both win and linux, and still occurs as of 3.4M3

Comment 2 Joe Gallo

2009-09-22 10:32:24 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> see also bug 179108.
> happens on both win and linux, and still occurs as of 3.4M3

Also happens on OSX, as of 3.5.0.  This seems to be duplicated by bug 179108.

Comment 3 Boris Bokowski

2009-09-23 14:13:12 EDT

*** Bug 179108 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Boris Bokowski

2009-11-26 16:32:27 EST

Prakash is now responsible for watching bugs in the [WorkbenchLauncher] component area.

Comment 5 Razec

2010-03-09 21:06:43 EST

I did a test and nothing happened. I think the bug FIXED.

Eclipse 3.4.1 Worked normal.
Build id: M20080911-1700
linux

Eclipse e4 Worked normal. 
eclipse.buildId=I20100224-2100
linux

Comment 6 Peter Larsen

2010-03-10 09:23:55 EST

I just tested 

Version: 3.6.0
Build id: I20100129-1300

on a windows xp64 and it still creates an empty

C:\Documents and Settings\***\workspace\.metadata

Comment 7 Frederic Gurr

2011-09-01 07:51:44 EDT

I just tested it with:

Version: Indigo Release
Build id: 20110615-0604

After clicking cancel, the workspace is NOT created.

So this issue seems to be fixed. (Works for me at least)

Comment 8 Paul Webster

2011-09-08 14:35:29 EDT