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Bug 99607

Summary:	[GlobalActions] "Software Updates" menu entry in Help menu is gone when switching from new to old eclipse version.
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Florian Beckmann <florianbeckmann>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Paul Webster <pwebster>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P5	CC:	b.muskalla, mistria, remy.suen, sbouchet
Version:	3.1	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
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Description Florian Beckmann

2005-06-13 06:58:28 EDT

When switching from 3.1RC1 back to 3.1M2 (same with M5 and M7) using the same 
workspace the "Software Updates" menu entry in the Help menu is gone.  
Switching to a new workspace OR deleting the file 
workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/workbench.xml or removing  
the line <alwaysOnActionSet id="org.eclipse.update.ui.softwareUpdates"/>  
within it brings the menu entry back. It's reproducable when using RC1 and 
switching back to a minor version again.

Comment 1 Dorian Birsan

2005-06-13 09:50:49 EDT

Update action set is contributed by the ui.ide plugin.

Comment 2 Bouchet Stéphane

2005-10-04 05:12:13 EDT

Got the same bugs with 3.1 Final, and after installing (unjar) some plugins. 

Win 2000, JDK SUN 1.5

Comment 3 Giovanni Pedone

2006-12-30 05:56:46 EST

same here, with eclipse 3.2.1 on win32
I noticed (thanks benny_ ;) that in workbench.xml there were 2 lines:
<alwaysOnActionSet id="org.eclipse.update.ui.softwareUpdates"/>
and
<alwaysOffActionSet id="org.eclipse.update.ui.softwareUpdates"/>

I tried deleting just the second one, but eclipse messed up and it did reset
the whole workbench.

thank you!

Comment 4 Paul Webster

2007-04-05 19:04:22 EDT

Assigning to component owner
PW

Comment 5 Mickael Istria

2014-06-26 11:15:30 EDT

This issue doesn't exist with newer Eclipse versions.