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Bug 85723

Summary:	[Preferences] Organize preferences by concepts instead of implementation
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Randy Hudson <hudsonr>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4	CC:	gunnar, Tod_Creasey
Version:	3.1	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Randy Hudson

2005-02-17 11:34:53 EST

Preferences like keybindings and fonts already have scope/context.  Most 
everything else has been left out and only has global scope.  In 3.0, I could 
have separate print margin columns for the default text editor, and the Java 
text editor.  The same for show line numbers, use thick caret, etc. In 3.1, I 
think these scopes have been combined into a single global scope.

Once scoped preferences are modeled, the whole preferences UI should be 
rebuilt to display preferences for a requested scope, instead of "here's 
everything, and here's a grep utility for finding what you need".

Comment 1 Randy Hudson

2005-08-09 12:55:43 EDT

For 3.1, there was a plan item to overhaul preferences/address scalability. I
was under the impression that this meant reorganize preferences by concepts. For
example:

- instead of showing the user every label decorator, show them all preferences
related to CVS. CVS-related preferences are scattered across
General/Appearance/Colors|Decorators, General/Editors, General/Keys,
Perspectives, and of course Team.

- instead of showing the user every keybinding, show them keybindings that are
available in the java source editor, or the global workbench keybindings, etc.

Part of this organization suggests the original request, which is that different
contexts be able to both inherit and override a preference such as "Show Print
Margin".

Comment 2 Tod Creasey

2007-04-03 16:44:34 EDT

This could be done without an API change by using keywords. However we have no plans to work on this feature currently.

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2009-08-30 02:23:53 EDT

As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.