Question

For multi-users desktops, I need to set-up some preferences in Eclipse.

As an example, I need to activate those 2 preferences by default :
General>Workspace>Refresh using native hooks or polling
General>Workspace>Refresh on access

I’ve found that by checking them and closing eclipse, it is saved to <workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs which contains :

eclipse.preferences.version=1
refresh.enabled=true
refresh.lightweight.enabled=true
version=1

What would be the way to set it system wide? All users, all workspaces.

Thanks,

Answer 1

Use Google Workspace Mechanic to share these settings. Or have your IDE and workspaces managed by Yoxos (which does a lot of other things besides only preferences).

In pure Eclipse, there is no way to do this by configuration only.