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Bug 320930

Summary:	Add a Description to the manifest editor
Product:	[Eclipse Project] PDE	Reporter:	Jon Svede <jsvede>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	curtis.windatt.public
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Jon Svede

2010-07-26 12:39:56 EDT

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It would be really handy if the Manifest editor provided a way for the developer to add a description of the project.  In large OSGi/Plug-in/RCP applications this would allow developers browsing the source to read a short description of the function of the plugin/bundle in the case the name isn't descriptive enough.  The description could be be stored in a variety of places: plugin.xml or the manifest itself or perhaps even it's own file.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Curtis Windatt

2010-07-26 12:53:05 EDT

The options in the manifest editor are based on the entries you can have in an OSGi manifest.  Unless OSGi adds a header (I don't think that there is one currently) to set a description, PDE won't add one to the editor.

There may be circumstances where a detailed description of a bundle is useful, but it is not worth adding a new special Eclipse header.  Closing as WONTFIX.