Discord Rich Presence for Eclipse IDE
Show the world the projects you're working on!
Discord Rich Presence for Eclipse IDE is a plug-in that uses Rich Presence in order to display information related to your current work in Discord.
Main Features:
- Exposure: have a great project? Show it to the world!
- Customization: don't like the wording or the icons? Provide your own!
- Extensibility: have a custom Eclipse editor? We can support it!
- Privacy: working on a secret project? Show only what you want!
Please take a look at the documentation for further information about installation, use and customizations.
Usage
Discord will automatically be notified as soon as the plug-in is installed. The plug-in can be deactivated from the Eclipse's Preferences (Window > Preferences > Discord Rich Presence > Uncheck Activate Rich Presence Integration).
Installation
The plug-in is available in the Eclipse Marketplace.
Drag the following button to your running Eclipse workspace to start the installation:
Or show how to install it manually
- Open Eclipse IDE
- Go to Help > Install New Software...
- Copy the update site’s URL in the Work with textbox:
- Hit Enter and wait for the list to load
- Check Discord Rich Presence for Eclipse IDE
- Click Next then Finish
Troubleshooting
Discord does not detect Eclipse IDE as a game
If Discord is not showing anything, ensure that Eclipse IDE is detected as a game:
- Open Discord's
User Settings - Go the
Gamestab - Click on the
Add it!button - Select Eclipse IDE
A 'Workbench early startup error' occurs since the plug-in is installed
In case you encounter the following error on startup:
An internal error occurred during: "Workbench early startup".
There is an incompatible JNA native library installed on this system
Expected: 5.1.0
Found: 4.0.1
modify the eclipse.ini file (located next to eclipse.exe) to set the jna.nosys property to true:
-vmargs
-Djna.nosys=true
ℹ️ The-vmargsline should already exist, otherwise you can append it at the end of the file.
Changelog
See CHANGELOG.md.
Contributing
Setup your dev environment
- Download the latest Eclipse IDE for RCP Developers release
- Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/echebbi/eclipse-discord-integration.git - Import all projects in Eclipse IDE
- Open the
releng/*.target/*.targetfile - Click on Set as Target Platform
- Wait for the dependencies to be loaded
Technical documentation
Plug-in's architecture is presented in [CONTRIBUTING.md/how-is-the-plug-in-architected](https://github.com/echebbi/eclipse-discord-integration/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-is-the-plug-in-architected).
See CONTRIBUTING.md for further details.
License
The Discord Rich Presence for Eclipse IDE plug-in is licensed under the Eclipse Public License 2.0.
It uses different third-party components which are licensed under:
- the Apache Public License 2.0
- java-discord-rpc Copyright (c) 2016 - 2019 Florian Spieß and the java-discord-rpc contributors
- the MIT License (MIT)
- fileicons-render Copyright (c) 2014
Thanks
- MinnDevelopment for his Java implementation of Discord RPC.
- Lorenzo Bettini for his explanations on how to publish a p2 composite repository on Bintray.
- HelloWorld017 for his adaptation of programming language icons. These icons are displayed on Discord according to the programming language of the current file.
- The Eclipse Foundation for allowing me to display the logo of the Eclipse IDE in Discord's status.