Description Stephen Willoughby 2003-07-04 11:40:09 EDT

Detailed Problem description:
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Each workspace in Eclipse has it's set of environment or workspace variables 
which seems wrong. There are variables which the user cannot change via the gui 
as 
they are set at install time eg JRE_LIB. However, during the process of 
uninstalling one build and replacing with another I changed my installation 
path. 
This meant that all my workspaces were pointing to incorrect path locations. To 
fix this I had to edit a file :-

E:\WebSphere Studio 
Workspaces\wsad\ma\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.jdt.core\pref_store.ini

for each workspace. These values should surely be part of the core product and 
as such would be refreshed automatically. Although a normal user would not be 
moving from build to build they might have a need to copy a workspace from one 
installation of WSAD v5 to another. If the two installations are in different 
directories this will become and issue - and one which could surely be avoided.

In addition when starting the help for the first time the help system is 
indexed. But it is indexed again for each new workspace. Couldn't there just be 
one
index for the base installed used by all workspaces - or even better just tag 
the indexing onto the back of the install process so that the help is available
for use immediately? The user probably wouldn't notice another 30secs to a 
minute on the install but does notice it when they need to use the help for the 
first time.