Features generally don't show up in the About dialog of Eclipse, as there is only space for a handful of features to appear there. Only top-level features which have branding information associated with them are shown in the dialog.
about.ini
that supplies the information:com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui
plug-in from before. Open the feature.xml
file, go to the Overview tab and add the name of the branding plug-in as com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui
:com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui
plug-in called about.ini
with the following content:featureImage=icons/sample.gif aboutText= Clock UI plug-in Example of how to use plug-ins to modularise applications
about.ini
file being part of the plug-in, Eclipse doesn't bundle it into the plug-in's JAR. There is another change which is required in the build.properties
file in the com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui
plug-in to include the about.ini
file explicitly:bin.includes = plugin.xml,
META-INF/,
.,
icons/,
about.ini,
...
about.ini
included.A feature is associated with a branding plug-in, which contains a section of text and an icon. This feature branding consists of an about.ini
file, which is included in the associated branding plug-in, and optionally a 32 x 32 icon.
The icon generated by the same wizard is 16 x 16, so it shows up as a quarter of the size of other icons in this list. A feature icon should be 32 x 32 size, otherwise the inconsistent size will be seen. Supplying a 32 x 32 feature icon is left as an exercise for the reader.
Since update sites can be served on websites, upload the update content to a remote web server and install it from there. Alternatively, use a web server such as Apache or those built into the operating system to serve the content via a local web server.