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Bug 333184

Summary:	-showlocation should show location in the beginning
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Missing name <soloturn>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, deepakazad, pwebster, remy.suen
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Missing name

2010-12-24 05:18:02 EST

Build Identifier: 20100917-0705

-showlocation should help distinguish eclipse windows when one starts multiple ecplipses. but most window manager display aids, like windows task bar, tab switching bar, linux task switching dispaly the beginning of a long window title. and the location is not displayed any more, so it does not help distinguishing any more.

please let it display in the beginning of the window title.



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Oleg Besedin

2010-12-24 10:19:47 EST

Do you mean "show location in the workspace chooser dialog"?

(The startup splash can be adjusted for different eclipse installs by using "-showSplash".)

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2010-12-29 05:37:31 EST

-1 to change the current behavior but I'm open for a new command line argument that would implement this.

Comment 3 Paul Webster

2011-01-04 10:36:14 EST

For the multiple eclipse case (multiple workspaces), there is a preference to name a workspace (General>Workspace).  It is shown at the beginning of the window title.

PW

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2011-01-04 10:46:14 EST

(In reply to comment #3)
> For the multiple eclipse case (multiple workspaces), there is a preference to
> name a workspace (General>Workspace).  It is shown at the beginning of the
> window title.
Ha! I didn't even know about this feature. I guess that's enough and we shouldn't add yet another command line argument then.

Comment 5 Oleg Besedin

2011-01-04 11:41:11 EST

(In reply to comment #4)
> Ha! I didn't even know about this feature. I guess that's enough and we
> shouldn't add yet another command line argument then.

Funny, I too did not know about it. I'll close this for now as "works for me"; please reopen if we misunderstood the request.