[platform-ui-dev] Activities and Menus in Eclipse 3

[Ksenya Lossiev <KSENYA@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

My apologies for posting to the dev
list, but this seems to be the only place where I can get help with Activities-related
issues. I tried working with activities in M6, the following are menu-related
questions:

1. It seems that there is no way to
hide a menu from the menubar, using activities. For example, I cannot remove
"Search" from the menubar with the following patterns:
      <activityPatternBinding
         
  activityId="my.activities.ide"
         
  pattern="org.eclipse.search/org.eclipse.search.menu">
      </activityPatternBinding>
      <activityPatternBinding
         
  activityId="my.activities.ide"
         
  pattern="org.eclipse.help.ide/org.eclipse.search.menu">
      </activityPatternBinding>
      <activityPatternBinding
         
  activityId="my.activities.ide"
         
  pattern="org.eclipse.jdt.ui/org.eclipse.search.menu">
      </activityPatternBinding>
While I do succeed to remove certain
menu items from within the "Search" menu, for example by the
following:
     
  <activityPatternBinding
         
  activityId="my.activities.ide"
         
  pattern="org.eclipse.search/org.eclipse.search.OpenFileSearchPage">
      </activityPatternBinding>
Is there any way to hide the whole menu, using activities (I'd like to
get rid of "Project" menu)?

2. When menu item is included into some
disabled activity (like OpenFileSearchPage above),  the item doesn't
appear at all. When I enable the activity, the item is still hidden. Only
after workbench restart with the activity enabled, the menu item gets back.
Is that the way things are supposed to be? The same also occurs in the
opposite direction: I open workbench with enabled activity -> menu item
appears. I uncheck the activity (via Window->Activity Configuration)
- the menu item isn't hidden until workbench restart.

Thanks a lot for any help!