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Bug 325360

Summary: [Workbench] Provide a preference controlled display of build-id in status bar
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Ankur Sharma <ankur_sharma>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Paul Webster <pwebster>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 CC: prakash, remy.suen
Version: 3.7Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Ankur Sharma CLA 2010-09-15 10:48:04 EDT 
This usually happens during test pass where I have several eclipse instances open - each a different build. And it gets tough to identify which one is which as they have similar stuff open as am verifying the bugs before and after.

I am requesting a way to display the build-is in the status bar. It can be turned on-off from a preference like we have for Heap Status. It will also help if the self-hosted instance show an extra icon or something to distinguish them from the host.
Comment 1 Paul Webster CLA 2010-09-15 11:21:25 EDT 
just FYI: You can use Preferences>General>Workspace to assign a name to each workspace that will be shown in the title bar.  There's also a command "Copy Build Id" (CTRL+3 cbi) that will copy the build id of the current build.

PW
Comment 2 Paul Webster CLA 2010-11-09 08:26:45 EST 
We won't add this in workbench itself.  You can write a plugin, use org.eclipse.ui.menus, and add a <control/> element to the status bar with an appropriate Label.

See org.eclipse.ui.internal.ConfigurationInfo.getBuildId() for how to get the build id.

PW