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Bug 27867

Summary:	[MenuMgmt] Need improved management of dynamic items
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Douglas Pollock <douglas.pollock>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	darin.eclipse, eclipse, eduardo_pereira
Version:	2.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	other
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	29709
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Description Nick Edgar

2002-12-06 15:16:21 EST

build I20021204

See bug 18830, which causes plugins to be activated early just to populate the 
menu system.  The immediate fix for 18830 is to populate menus lazily, but this 
will still activate plugins when perusing the menu system.  We need to find a 
better solution which avoids this.

Plugins like Debug and External Tools need to be able to add and remove menu 
items dynamically (e.g. for the launch history and Run/Debug As submenus).

There is a related request to be able to change the tooltip (and possibly other 
presentation aspects like name and icon) of actions like the Run/Debug toolbar 
buttons (to be able to show "Debug Last Launched: Target").  We should also 
persist these settings.

Essentially this means giving plugins access to a representation of their 
action sets, allowing items to be added, removed, and have their presentation 
changed.  The workbench must persist this representation, and restore it 
without activating plugins.

Comment 1 Simon Arsenault

2003-01-07 10:49:01 EST

Will investigate but may not have a complete solution for 2.1

Comment 2 Simon Arsenault

2003-02-03 14:52:21 EST

Not for 2.1 release.

Comment 3 Douglas Pollock

2004-10-29 10:43:38 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12757 ***