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Bug 23520

Summary:	[Preferences] The eclipse argument -showlocation should be in the preferences
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Martin Möbius <m.moebius>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	adam.hupp, almilli, dj.houghton, martin.gutschelhofer, mindcrime, neil_buesing, philippe_mulet, Tod_Creasey
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows NT
Whiteboard:

Description Martin Möbius

2002-09-13 03:05:37 EDT

It would be useful to provide a setting in the preferences below Workbench to 
allow the display of the workbench location.

Comment 1 Tod Creasey

2002-09-17 11:48:42 EDT

The preference pages are designing for changing current values -which you 
couldn't do for this. Sounds like you really want to equivalent of a 
properties page for the root.

Moving to Component Owner as part of a general usability review.

Comment 2 Martin Möbius

2002-09-18 02:36:18 EDT

First of all there is no documentation about that -showlocation (another br is 
filed). And not all users have multiple workspaces to work with (the use case 
where the presented information does make sense).
So my first thougt was to give the user an easy option to turn the setting 
on/off. Like I can turn on/off the line number for the java editor.
If you mean we should be able to switch to another workspace, hm yes would be 
great, but its not the intention of my br.

Comment 3 Tod Creasey

2002-09-18 10:29:47 EDT

The problem is that this is a runtime option - you would have to restart 
anyway to have it take effect. Had you run with -showLocation in the first 
place you would be aware of the option and hence a preference page would not 
buy you anything.

Please let us know the number of the other PR you logged.

Comment 4 Martin Möbius

2002-09-18 10:57:48 EDT

doc bug
http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23519

Comment 5 Kevin Haaland

2003-02-07 12:43:19 EST

*** Bug 14772 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Kevin Haaland

2003-02-07 12:43:44 EST

*** Bug 21872 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Kevin Haaland

2003-02-07 12:44:05 EST

*** Bug 25473 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Kevin Haaland

2003-02-07 12:44:26 EST

*** Bug 21898 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Michael Van Meekeren

2005-12-05 12:24:35 EST

*** Bug 71713 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Tod Creasey

2006-06-22 08:34:51 EDT

There are currently no plans to work on this feature