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Bug 50181

Summary:	[Import/Export] Allow project import by drag and drop from Windows Explorer (or equiv on other platforms)
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Colin Sampaleanu <colinml1>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, Tod_Creasey
Version:	3.0	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Colin Sampaleanu

2004-01-18 11:36:35 EST

Right now it is a relatively painful process to import existing projects into an
Eclipse workspace, when this has to be done for more than one or two projects.

It would be much simpler/faster for users if they could select one or more
.project files in their filesystem navigator (Windows Explorer on Windows, and
equivalents on other platforms), and drag and drop them into the Package
Explorer, which would prompt the user if they wanted to import that/those
project(s).

Comment 1 Debbie Wilson

2004-01-19 11:45:02 EST

Looks like this may involve PDE too.

Comment 2 Tod Creasey

2004-02-11 18:18:51 EST

This would only work for one type of project import (existing project). I 
suspect this would be pretty challenging to get right.

Comment 3 Colin Sampaleanu

2004-02-11 18:28:58 EST

Yes, but it would be a big timesaver for importing existing projects after
creating a new workspace, especially if you could select multiple .project files
at a time and drag them in...

Comment 4 Tod Creasey

2006-06-22 08:35:59 EDT

There are currently no plans to work on this feature

Comment 5 Dani Megert

2013-11-18 12:28:56 EST