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Bug 136945

Summary:	[EditorMgmt] Editor managment needs to resolve multiple 'default' editors
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	David Williams <david_williams>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	bokowski, ccocchiaro
Version:	3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description David Williams

2006-04-16 20:58:02 EDT

As Eclipse grows, so does this problem. 
It has been brought up before, e.g in 
bug 15428, and now more recently in bug 136500. 

If there are multiple plugins, especially from multiple 
providers, that all have their preferred editor they want 
to contribute, and they'd all prefer it to be the by default. 

The solution worked out in bug 15428 is showing its age ... it is 
no longer feasible to think of "one product wants to override one editor'
since, more and more, there can be many plugins installed together and none of 
them, per se, are "products". And, it would be inappropriate to expect a number of providers to, for example, each declare themselves a 'product', just so they 
could provide a differnet default editor preference. 

So, I'd like to re-raise the possibility of the editor manager detecting that there was more than one default declared, and ... prompt the user for which they wanted to be the default? 

Or ... any other ideas for the problem and issues raised in bug 136500?

Note, we in WTP can improve the situation described in bug 136500, since we do have too many unnecessarily using 'default' ... but, we can't really solve the problem for all cases, nor the general problem, so, thought I'd open this bug to request the bright minds of platform UI :) to propose a general solution? 

Much thanks.

Comment 1 Jordi Boehme Lopez

2006-08-16 09:17:42 EDT

A solution I would prefer:

Instead of defining default="true", it should be possible to define default="my.project.type.id".

So a WTP XML editor could be the default for an WTP project and an other XML Editor could be default for the other XML files.

... I'm stuck in such a problem, too:
I have a custom MANIFEST.MF Editor that can only proceed the manifest files located in a special project type -> I would need to enable the editor for a specific project type only.
When I open an plugin MANIFEST.MF file, the default editor should then be used, not my custom one!

Comment 2 David Williams

2007-01-06 01:38:45 EST

*** Bug 167423 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Susan McCourt

2009-07-09 19:08:45 EDT

As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009

Comment 4 Boris Bokowski

2009-11-17 13:06:03 EST

Remy is now responsible for watching the [EditorMgmt] component area.

Comment 5 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 15:36:40 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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Comment 6 Eclipse Genie

2021-12-22 17:22:14 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

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