Eclipse Cookbook

2.12. Displaying More Resource Information with Icons

Problem

You want to turn on label decorators to get additional information about icons and buttons.

Solution

Select Window→ Preferences→ Workbench→ Label Decorations.

Discussion

Label decorations augment the standard Eclipse icons displayed in various views. For example, if you archive a code file in a CVS repository and have label decorations turned on, the file’s icon displays a small gold cylinder that isn’t there otherwise.

To turn on label decorations, select Window→ Preferences→ Workbench→ Label Decorations, and select which decoration you want to use, as shown in Figure 2-10.

Figure 2-10. Selecting label decorations

We’re going to use label decorations with Eclipse and CVS in Chapter 6. Once you’ve turned on label decorations, you can see at a glance which files have been stored in the CVS repository.

See Also

Recipe 6.6 on labeling files using version control.