I am developing a GUI in eclipse with RCP3. Included in the new project options is a "General Project" option that has no relevance to the purpose of my application, and I would like to remove it. However, I can't find it anywhere in the code of the project. I suspect that it is included in the core functionality of my imported packages, specifically org.eclipse.ui, but I am not sure. If anyone would like more information on files such as the manifest or plugin.xml let me know please.
The New menu options are filtered by the org.eclipse.ui.activities extension point activities. So you can suppress entries by defining a suitable activity.
The New General Project entry is defined in the org.eclipse.ui.ide plugin and has the id org.eclipse.ui.wizards.new.project, so an activity to suppress it would be:
<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.activities">
<activity
id="test.disable"
name="Disable New Project">
</activity>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="test.disable"
isEqualityPattern="true"
pattern="org.eclipse.ui.ide/org.eclipse.ui.wizards.new.project">
</activityPatternBinding>
</extension>
Note that the pattern value includes the plugin id and the item id. This is an equality pattern so it is not a regular expression.
Some more information on activities here