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Build Identifier: M20090917-0800 I have an RCP product with the name specified as %productName with the actual value found in plugin.properties as is a common practice. In my product, this name is correctly used, e.g. in the About XXX item on the help menu. However, if you access the about dialog and do Installation Details then Installed Software, the product is listed with the name "productName", not its value XXX. If the product name is directly given as XXX in the .product editor instead of as %productName, then it works correctly. Thus, the InstalledSoftware tab is not parsing the %productName correctly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure a product using %productName as the name and use plugin.properties to define the name. 2. Verify the Installed Software tab does not have the correct name. 3. Verify Help | Aboput soes have the correct name.
Created attachment 168416 [details] Installed Software tab showing productName as the name of the product.
Could you please try generating this metadata using a recent 3.6 build?
I just installed 3.6.0 M7 and tried it. The problem still occurs.
The product name in the about dialog menu (and the installation details title bar) comes from Platform.getProduct(). The screenshot shows that the IU representing the product does not show the product name, so this is a problem with the metadata.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
I believe the problem is in the metadata itself (which hasn't been shared) and not in how it's presented in the UI.
According to the original post it was readily reproduced if you want to see the metadata. It's been ten years. Using RCP turned out to be a mistake. I only have two apps left, which cause problems with every version update in ways I can't debug. Help requests are ignored. Bottom line: it is ok with me if you close this issue.
Ah, I think I see now. All the products I see define the name in the product file; it's kind of there twice too, also in the launch arguments. There's nothing to suggest you can use %... anywhere because there's no specific bundle from which this should be resolved. Perhaps it should be from the bundle defining the extension that registers the product, but that extension itself registers a name that is used elsewhere, but not for the product IU itself. So the product IU is then kind of the only IU for which you can't provide translations and can see that this might be useful. But you can build a product's IU without there being a registered extension for it, so I'm not sure how the publisher should find the %productName. I'll mark it as an enhancement then, though it's unlikely to see time investment. :-(
Thanks. I'm sure I'm defining it in the .product file now. It looks like what I did then was based on things I'd seen others do. Again, it's and old issue, Eclipse has changed significantly, it isn't especially important, and the issue can be closed as far as I'm concerned.
As I wade through all the issues, I see this is a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 268144 ***
