Eclipse/F12 Polish

For Fedora 12, the Fedora Eclipse group of contributors would like to focus on polish items. We have a lot of great plugins with awesome functionality but we would like to smooth some rough edges to ease the development process. We are collecting a list of items here. It is preferable for items to have upstream (bugs.eclipse.org) bug report links, but if not, team members can probably be coerced into filing them.

• C Build console should have a stop button
• Running a C/C++ binary prompts for gdb type
• Importing a project from existing sources could be smoother
• Sometimes, building a single project blocks the entire workspace
• Automatic build (CDT) is sometimes too eager
• ~ should be expanded to /home/username in dialogues, etc. Related bugs:
  • Using ~ in the workspace selector dialog no longer refers to home directory
  • Linux export dialog doesn't expand tilde (~) to home directory
• Grab pkg-config macros from configure.ac and install missing -devel packages with PackageKit. Related bugs:
  • add pkg-config support for linux
  • Support importing options from pkg-config
  • Use PackageKit to install packages for missing pkg-config modules
• Buffers for configure/build are often too small; log to file by default? bigger?
• Search in the console view would be very nice (is this upstream bug fixed?)
• In EGit, Clone repository should use new project wizard if no .project files exist in repo
• Disable building before running (CDT)
• If automatic build is on, only changed projects should be built
• Sometimes autotool'd projects don't build and this snowballs into other problems
  • Mis-placed warnings for header files not found (-I statements not correctly scraped)
  • Builds failing
  • Missing make targets
• The autotools project could use some unit tests for building to increase its robustness and help to avoid regressions