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Build Identifier: M20110210-1200 The Linux Java Build Path/Libraries/Add External Jars dialog only allows me to browse for external jars and does not let me do the quicker thing of specifying the full path to the jar I want to add. Where I work most of the jars are on network file shares, so the browsing method of adding them to my build path can take up to 1 hour per jar! Obviously, I can simply add a new entry to the .classpath file, but it would be really nice if the Linux UI has a way of specifying the full path to a jar if known. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the Java Build Path properties dialog for a java project 2. Goto the Libraries tab and Click Add External Jar 3. When the dialog opens (which can take a while on my system) there is no where to put a path to a jar. I must browse, which is really slow on a network file system.
Created attachment 192726 [details] Selection dialog That sounds like a problem of your Linux install. We just use the selection dialog from the OS, and if that is not giving you the option to paste a full path directly, you have to ask for this on the OS level. As you can see in the attachment, e.g. Gnome has this toggle button to show a Location line where I can paste a full path and then click OK. You can also just paste the path to a folder there and then select multiple files. And note that if already the selection of a JAR takes so much time, then you won't be happy with that remote JAR anyway, since the compiler frequently accesses these files. Better copy them somewhere on your machine (e.g. into a local project).
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