Just an FYI as well... What often is overlooked in preference managers is that there can be additional things done besides just changing a preference value.
For example, when changing the preference "Plug-in Development/Include all plug-ins from target in Java search" a job is activated that updates the java search scope. You can see this for yourself when you open the progress view and flip the value. When this preference is set directly through the preference store then this job is not activated which obviously is very confusing. In other words, preferences like this cannot be managed correctly by Oomph, the Workspace Mechanic and now the Preference spy. Since the preference pages are all manually coded UI panels, there is no way in knowing what things are managed beside the actual preference. Cheers, Wim On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Ed Merks <[email protected]> wrote: > Simon, > > Just an FYI... The Oomph project has an EMF model that wrap Eclipse's > preferences. This allows all preferences to be inspected (and even > changed), including secure preferences. When the model is opened in an > editor, that editor will select any preference that changes. This aspect > is very crude compared to what's in the blog, but we often use it like a > "spy" to figure out where preferences changed via the UI are actually > stored in the preference store. The primary purpose of this preference > model is for use in other Oomph models... > > Cheers, > Ed > > > On 09/01/2015 1:45 PM, Simon Scholz wrote: > >> Dear e4 developers, >> >> I like to contribute the Preference Spy, which I introduced in the >> http://blog.vogella.com/2014/12/28/preferences-spy-for- >> eclipse-ide-and-rcp/ blog entry , to the E4 tools, so that it becomes an >> official spy, like the Model Spy and others. >> >> We at the vogella GmbH already use this Preference Spy a lot, especially >> for the saneclipse project. >> Olivier Prouvost already gave the Preference Spy a try and explained how >> to embed the Preference Spy as official E4 SpyPart. >> >> All necessary information can be obtained from the blog entry >> http://blog.vogella.com/2014/12/28/preferences-spy-for- >> eclipse-ide-and-rcp/, like an introduction for it, the github repository >> (https://github.com/vogellacompany/PreferencesSpy) or the p2 updatesite ( >> http://dl.bintray.com/vogellacompany/eclipse-preference-spy/). >> >> What do you think about the plan to integrate the Preference Spy as >> official SpyPart? >> >> Comments or Github issues are welcome and appreciated. Thanks in advance. >> >> best regards, >> >> Simon Scholz >> >> > _______________________________________________ > e4-dev mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev >
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