Eclipse Navigator Tidy
Working through some of the chapters I skipped in the Berthold Daum
book last night I discovered the wonder of working sets for the
Navigator view. If you are like me and work on maintenance items
as well as new development projects, your navigator pane in Eclipse
gets quite cluttered. Enter the "working set". I had been
using these for searches for some time (Ctrl H to do an extended
search) but had no idea they affected the rest of Eclipse.
- In the Navigator pane click the black down arrow in the toolbar and you see the option to "Select Working Set".
- If you already have some working sets defined you can just pick one, otherwise you will want to click New.
- Select Resource on the next page of the wizard
- Enter a friendly name for your set name
- Select the projects (or subsection of projects) you wish to include by checking the box and then click finish
I have reorganized my workspace now to the following working sets:
- Maintenance - older projects refered to less often
- New Development - current projects including our VSS repository for code templates
- Personal - all the nerdy neat stuff I'm working on!