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After talking to various people and here is my observation which leads me to the opinion that main project concept needs some changes. 1. There are people who prefer to use context actions on projects and never use Icons in main toolbar. 2. There are people who add their own current-project sensitive actions into main toolbar and use them. 3. J2ME Toolbar which is located in the main toolbar follows the convention, i.e. it works with main project but if someone works with with more than one project (a library and an application) the flow is broken. Usability tests have shown that if it is in editor toolbar it is not visible enough. 4. Some people say that they would prefer to execute and debug main project but they would like to configure properties, compile, etc. of current project.
*** Issue 104044 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I agree it needs to be rethought - one possible solution is to deemphasize main project as suggested in issue 166780.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 166780 ***