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The background of this request is : We have a menu which control visibility of each ActionSet items. Because we have many ActionSet, we'd like to put a shortcut menu for customizing ActionSet visibility. The API we want are - API to check the current visibility of ActionSet. - API to show/hide each ActionSet forcedly. Current IWorkbenchPage#showActionSet, IWorkbenchPage#hideActionSet doesn't work when user customizes it by GUI or plugin.xml specifies the initial visibility by perspectiveExtensions.
Making the "behavior" changes to show/hide action sets is not trivial and far too complicated for this late in the 2.0.1 cycle. The idea of a quick way to show/hide action sets from an editor shortcut menu has been discussed a few times in the past. It is something that the workbench would like to generalize for all editors. But nothing we can do for 2.0.1 release. Will it be part of 2.1? That all depends how high a priority this is to workbench clients like yourself and others.
Is there progress for this request ?
action, actionset, global action, and contribution issues are all being reviewed now (for M5). i can tell you that 'contexts' which have recently evolved into 'activities and roles' - ongoing work for M5 may change entirely the idea of turning on/off action sets. by the end of M5 we should have a better answer for you.
Reassigning to Platform-UI-Inbox (I left IBM 18 months ago..)
Moving Dougs bugs
Assigning to component owner PW
These will not be worked on. Please re-open if you feel the community should get a crack at them.
