What's new in 2.0
There are numerous new features and changes to existing features in the new
Eclipse Workbench. The following lists some of them.
- Menu reorganization
- The Workbench menus have been reorganized as follows:
- The Perspective menu has been removed, with its items moving to the
Window menu.
- There are several new menu items in the File and Edit
menus. Some of these menu items were previously found in the navigator
view context menu and in editor context menus.
- There is a new Navigate menu.
- There is a new Search menu.
- Recently used file list
- The File menu now shows the most recently opened files. You
can specify the size of this list on the Workbench > Editors
preference page.
- Single click activation
- You now have the option to activate files with a single click
instead of a double mouse click. See the Workbench preference page
for related settings.
- Toolbar rearrange
- You may now rearrange sections of the main toolbar using the mouse.
- Accessibility
- Accessibility features have been added to Eclipse. Accessibility features
help people with a physical disability or those with special needs to use
software products successfully. Some of these features can help everyone
use Eclipse more effectively. The Window > Keyboard Shortcuts menu for
example lists keyboard shortcuts for frequently used operations.
- Key bindings
- The Window > Editors preference page gives you the option to use
non-standard key bindings.
- Label decorations
- There is a new concept of label decorations.
Plug-ins may contribute information to resource labels and icons. You can
select which decorations you would like to see on the
Workbench > Label Decorations preference page.
- External tools
- You can now run arbitrary external tools
from within Eclipse and display output from these tools in the log console view.
The Ant support makes use of this new feature as well.
- Working sets
- Working sets group elements for display in views or for operations on a set
of elements. The Navigator view, Tasks view, the search facility and more
support the use of working sets.
- Perspectives
- You can no longer open more than one perspective of the same type in one
window. For example if you already have an open Resource perspective you will
have to open another window in order to open a second Resource perspective.
The perspective preferences have changed as well and have been moved to
Workbench > Perspectives.
- Fast views
- Fast views work like other views
except they do not take up space in your Workbench window. They can easily
be hidden and are accessed by toolbar buttons. Any view can be opened as a
fast view.
- Editors
- Editors are now shared by perspectives in the same window. For example if
you open a set of files in the Resource perspective and then open a
Java perspective, the same files will be visible in the Java perspective.
You may specify the maximum number of open editors on the
Workbench > Editors preference page. Old editors will be closed if
the limit is exceeded.
- Text file encoding
- You can select the character encoding used to read and write files on
the Workbench > Editors preference page.
- Quick Fix
- Certain problems displayed in the tasks view may now be fixed automatically,
with a click of the mouse.
- Import project
- You can import Eclipse projects that reside outside your current workspace
using the new Existing Project into Workspace import wizard.
- Import/Export Preferences
- Preferences may now be exchanged between workspaces using the import/export
preference feature.
- Local history
- It is now possible to restore deleted resources from the
local history using the new
Restore From Local History... command in the navigator view context menu.
- Working with patch files
- You can now create patch files for a CVS project
and apply patch files to workspace resources.
Ant support
Rearranging the main toolbar
Enabling the CVS resource decorations
Log console view
Editors preferences
Perspectives preferences
Workbench preferences
