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Bug 175729

Summary: Create standard UI mechanism for enablement of project natures
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Peter Hayes <peter.hayes>
Component: UIAssignee: Boris Bokowski <bokowski>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: markus.kell.r, martinae, Tod_Creasey
Version: 3.2.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Peter Hayes CLA 2007-02-27 14:06:47 EST
After using Spring IDE and Maven2 eclipse plugins, I find it inefficient that each has its own menu item in the right-click project menu to enable / disable their respective natures.  Would it be possible to standardize a UI location for plugins that add natures to hook into so that these menu items are not proliferated on this (and possible others) menu?

A suggestion would be on the project properties dialog to add a "Natures" tree item which would allow the user to enable / disable any contributed nature.  I find this to be an appealing location as enabling natures is not generally accessed often and having it on the right-click menu clutters the UI experience with seldom used selections.

I apologize in advance if this is found to be a redundant request.
Comment 1 Markus Keller CLA 2007-02-28 04:29:09 EST
See also bug 102527.
Comment 2 Boris Bokowski CLA 2007-03-16 16:03:50 EDT

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 102527 ***