Wanted dead or alive – Eclipse configuration synchronizer!
Have you ever had the feeling why all the settings are workspace specific. For example why do I have to change the fonts each time I create a new workspace or turn on editor line numbers? There are some tricks, by specifying properties in some ini files, but this is really clumsy (Do you know the property name for the fonts? Without searching?). I think this is something that should be achievable without hacking. 
So does anyone know if there is such a plugin that would help synchronize common properties or if there is interest for such a plugin?
Yes! I need that aswell. I frequently switch between workspaces to work in different branches of our product, and keeping the configuration the same is a nightmare.
I don’t know if there is a plugin for it but you can make an empty workspace, make all the base configuration changes you want then export the configuration.
keep this file and reimport it in any new workspace you make.
there may even be a way to specify this file as the base eclipse configuration but I never looked for it ….
Have you tried File / Export… / Preferences and then corresponding import?
Yes, we need it! May be I can hack something to AnyEdit Tools
. BTW, the lack if a proper settings synchronization was the reason why I’ve wrote export/import working sets wizard in AnyEdit.
@Eugene: unfortunately many view and workspace settings are lost if just using “export/import settings” wizard.
Yeah, the export/import is something you have to do with each workspace you create, I was hoping something more automatic
would file->switch workspace->other….
with the copy setting set get enough of what you want?
I use that, but you have to open an existing workspace before you create the new one.
The problem is that there are many options that do something similar, but you still have to manually do it