Name Your Workspaces

Here’s a nice Helios feature that comes in handy when you often work with multiple workspaces simultaneously (as we recommend for developing single source application with RCP and RAP). If you do, you probably know this which-is-which guessing when looking at your taskbar (or window switcher):

How can you distinguish your Eclipse instances? How can you tell in which workspace you are editing? There is a commandline parameter -showlocation that appends the workspace location to the window title - not very helpful either. Now since Helios M6, you can give your workspace a name in the Workspace preference page:

This name is then displayed in the window title:

Much better, isn’t it?