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Build Identifier: Build id: 20110916-0149 Anyone working with multiple workspaces will often launch Eclipse multiple times. For each new Eclipse instance, an 'error' message will be presented to the user with the text (in English): "Workspace in use or cannot be created, choose a different one" This is bad wording for three reasons: 1) It drops the "The" pronoun, which is very informal 2) It uses an imperative, which in combination with (1) is impolite, 3) It assumes that the user specified the workspace when starting up, when in fact Eclipse has probably chosen the default (or last used) workspace. I suggest the following: 1) Change the message to "The default workspace is in use or cannot be created. Please choose a different one." 2) Change the icon from an "X" error icon to an "(i)" information icon. (Windows representation). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Eclipse with one workspace 2.Try and open Eclipse again with the same workspace.
(In reply to comment #0) > 1) Change the message to "The default workspace is in use or cannot be created. > Please choose a different one." This sounds good to me. > 2) Change the icon from an "X" error icon to an "(i)" information icon. > (Windows representation). I'd prefer to leave it as an "X" (error), as the user cannot proceed. PW
Created attachment 231218 [details] patch proposal
Released as http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=a38f722aefca1ee5aba41f840632c9f2abe018c2 Thanks Piotr PW
Verified in I20130805-2000.
