Eclipse 4 e4 - about dialog

Question

I am building an Eclipse 4 Application and I would like to make an about dialog as known from Eclipse 3. I used the Menu Spy and learned the following:

The active contribution location URI:

menu:help?after=about

The active action definition identifier:

org.eclipse.ui.help.aboutAction

The active contribution item class:

ActionFactory$WorkbenchCommandAction

The contributing plug-in:

org.eclipse.ui.workbench

QUESTION: Can I somehow use this action to open or extend the about dialog in my application?

Answer 1

There is no such a thing like preimplemented "about" dialog in e4. The old about dialog relied on the ´org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbench´ which is null in new e4 applicaiton-model.

So the about dialog must be implemented from scratch.

Answer 2

These components aren't migrated yet to eclipse 4. I created a bug report for this issue. If you think this is important to be fixed, please consider a vote on this report.