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| <title>Eclipse Project Luna - New and Noteworthy</title> |
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| <h2>Platform and Equinox</h2> |
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| <tr id="split-editors"> |
| <td class="title">Split editors</td> |
| <td class="content">Do you ever find yourself working in a large file and need to view or edit multiple sections at once? <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8009">Finally</a>, |
| Eclipse supports split editors! You can now split / unsplit the currently active editor. Just use one of the new key bindings supplied in Luna: |
| <ul> |
| <li><b>Ctrl+_</b> splits the editor one above the other</li> |
| <li><b>Ctrl+{</b> splits the editor side by side</li> |
| <li>Re-applying the command to an already split editor reverts it to only have one pane.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/split_editors.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Try it out on <i>your</i> favorite editor! |
| </p> |
| </td> |
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| <tr id="darktheme"> |
| <td class="title">Dark theme</td> |
| <td class="content">A new dark window theme has been introduced. This popular community theme demonstrates the power of the underlying Eclipse 4 styling engine. You can enable it from the |
| <b>General > Appearance</b> preference page. Plug-ins can contribute extensions to this theme to style their own specific views and editors to match the window theme. |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/darktheme.png" alt="" /> |
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| <tr id="quick-access"> |
| <td class="title">Quick access as a popup</td> |
| <td class="content">If you find the <b>Quick Access</b> field in the toolbar takes up too much space, you can now hide it. From the context menu in the toolbar, select <b>Hide</b>. |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/quick-access-hide.png" alt="Hiding quick access" /> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Once hidden, pressing <b>Ctrl+3</b> will instead show a popup dialog. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/quick-access-dialog.png" alt="Quick access dialog" /> |
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| <tr id="minimized-stack-option"> |
| <td class="title">New layout for minimized views</td> |
| <td class="content">Minimized views now have two different display modes: |
| <ul> |
| <li>Use Overlays: This is the current mode where showing a minimized view opens it in a 'fly out', overlaying part of the main window.</li> |
| <li>Show in the Original Location: This is a new mode that will temporarily put the stack back into the perspective while one of its views is active. This has the advantage that the |
| minimized view won't overlay anything in the current presentation (e.g. your editor...).</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| To access the new mode, right-click on the <b>Restore</b> button of a minimized stack and select the <b>Show in the Original Location</b> menu item (see image below). Note that this change |
| is global, so once it's set, all minimized views will use the selected mode. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/restore-btn.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| |
| <p>Here's what the current mode looks like:</p> |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/use-overlays.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| <p>Here's what the new mode looks like. Note how the editor has been pushed to the right rather than being obscured:</p> |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/no-overlays.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| We're really interested in your feedback on this! The initial response has been positive enough that we're considering making the non-overlay mode the default. What do you think? (Post |
| your comments <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=426556">here</a>). |
| </p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="reorder-perspectives"> |
| <td class="title">Perspective re-ordering</td> |
| <td class="content">You can now drag and drop the items in the perspective switcher to change the order of your open perspectives. |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/move-persp-items.png" alt="moveitems" /> |
| </p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr id="protect-option"> |
| <td class="title">New protection options for Eclipse</td> |
| <td class="content">A new launcher parameter named <b>-protect</b> has been introduced and it accepts the following values: |
| <ul> |
| <li><b>-protect root</b> can be used to prevent Eclipse from being started as a root user, either directly or via programs that run with administrative privileges like 'sudo'. This |
| option is currently implemented only on Linux/UNIX based platforms.</li> |
| <li><b>-protect master</b> can be used to prevent starting of the master instance in a shared install configuration. This option can be used on all platforms supported by Eclipse.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| The above options can either be set in the launcher's <b>.ini</b> file or can be used directly from the command line (e.g eclipse -protect root). |
| </p> |
| </td> |
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| <tr id="signed-executables"> |
| <td class="title">Signed SDK Executables (for Windows and Mac)</td> |
| <td class="content">We now provide signed Windows and Mac executables for the Eclipse SDK. This gets rid of those operating system warnings about running untrusted software, and saves you |
| from having to disable "Gatekeeper" or other security measures to run Eclipse.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="import-filter-conflicts"> |
| <td class="title">Filter conflicting projects during import</td> |
| <td class="content">When importing existing projects, you can now filter out any conflicting projects (projects that are already present in your workspace). |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/import-filter-conflicts-before.png" alt="filter conflicting projects" /> |
| </p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr id="import-as-project"> |
| <td class="title">Import as Project</td> |
| <td class="content">In the <b>Project Explorer</b>, a folder that contains a <code>.project</code> file and whose related project isn't already in the workspace now shows an <b>Import |
| as Project</b> context menu entry that imports the folder into the workspace as an existing project. |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/import-as-project.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| </td> |
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| <tr id="show-in-system-explorer"> |
| <td class="title">Show In System Explorer</td> |
| <td class="content">If you select a resource and right click, there is now a <b>Show In > System Explorer</b> context menu entry that will open the folder containing that resource in |
| your system's file explorer. |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/shown-in-system-explorer.png" alt="menu popup with Show In System Explorer" /> |
| </p> The command for launching the system explorer can be configured on the <strong>General > Workspace</strong> preference page. |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="launch-options"> |
| <td class="title">Updated launch options</td> |
| <td class="content">The default preference for the fall-back behavior of context-sensitive launching has been changed to launch the previous application. |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/launch-options.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| <p>Existing workspaces that use the "Always launch the previously launched application" option are not affected by this change.</p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="ant-view-collapse-all"> |
| <td class="title">Collapse All in Ant view</td> |
| <td class="content">The Ant view now supports the <b>Collapse All</b> command: |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/ant-view.png" alt="The Ant view showing the collapse all action" /> |
| </p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="ide-icons"> |
| <td class="title">Platform icons converted to png files</td> |
| <td class="content">Based on a community contribution, lots of of the existing GIF icons in the Eclipse platform have been replaced by PNG icons. This makes Eclipse icons look better on a |
| dark background, as for example the toolbar on Mac OS X or on a dark theme. |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/iconupdate.png" alt="New platform icons" /> |
| </p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="appmodel-perspective"> |
| <td class="title">Support for dynamic icon changes</td> |
| <td class="content">The workbench now supports dynamically changing icons at runtime. This means that workbench themes (such as the dark theme), can introduce different icons, and these |
| changes will take effect without requiring a restart.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="os-ubuntu"> |
| <td class="title">Ubuntu menu integration</td> |
| <td class="content">In cooperation with Canonical, the Eclipse Platform team has been working on improving the presentation of Eclipse menus in Ubuntu, which had problems in Ubuntu 13.04 |
| and 13.10. These problems are now resolved in Ubuntu 14.04, where Eclipse menus now display nicely.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="swt-xulrunner24"> |
| <td class="title">SWT Browser now supports XULRunner 24.x</td> |
| <td class="content">An SWT Browser created with style <code>SWT.MOZILLA</code> can now be used with the XULRunner 24.x runtime. |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="set-gtk-version"> |
| <td class="title">Set the GTK+ version to be used by Eclipse via the launcher</td> |
| <td class="content">The launcher parameter <b>--launcher.GTK_version</b> can now be used to choose which version of GTK+ will be used by Eclipse on Linux. The acceptable values are: |
| <ul> |
| <li><b>2</b> for GTK+ 2.x</li> |
| <li><b>3</b> for GTK+ 3.x</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| Note that setting the GTK+ version via this parameter takes precedence over setting the SWT_GTK3 environment variable. See <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=434619">bug |
| 434619</a> for more details. |
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