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The "Compare with" dialog

Revision as of 13:24, 12 May 2008 by Aleksandra.k.wozniak.gmail.com (Talk | contribs) (New page: == Abstract == The goal of this project is to provide a more flexible and user-friendly way to compare files inside the Eclipse environment. Currently, the Eclipse's "Compare With" featur...)

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Abstract

The goal of this project is to provide a more flexible and user-friendly way to compare files inside the Eclipse environment. Currently, the Eclipse's "Compare With" feature has a few problems:

  • There is no easy way to compare files located outside the workspace with ones located inside (see bug 73923 for details).
  • To compare two or three files in the current workspace the user has to select them (using a ctrl-click) and choose the "Compare With"->"Each Other" option from a pop-up menu.

Both these issues can be solved by providing an UI element (possibly a dialog or a view) to which user can add two or three files and than invoke a compare editor from it.

This project is part of 2008 Google Summer of Code.

Participants:

  • Student: Aleksandra Woźniak
  • Mentor: Tomasz Zarna

Features

Must have

  • adding files for comparison by drag'n'dropping them from the Package Manager
  • adding files for comparison by "Open Resource"/"Open Type" dialogs
  • adding files for comparison by "Open file" dialog (for choosing files located outside the current workspace)

Should have

  • invoking folder compares from the dialog

Nice to have

  • invoking a compare editor by drag'n'dropping one file to another in the Package Manager

Community proposals

Feel free to add your comments and ideas.

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