How do I disable news polling in eclipse for all workspaces in one shot?

Question

I'm working in eclipse and have many workspaces. I have to fine-tune each workspace, disabling annoying news popup. I use eclipse as an IDE, I have another applications to read news.

Is there a way to propagate the disabled news polling into all workspaces? Or have this setting global?

Answer 1

A radical option is to completely remove the plugin that provides a news feed.

1. Go to Help > About Eclipse IDE > Installation Details and uninstall "Code Recommenders News Feed".
2. Restart Eclipse.
3. When the following window pops up, check "Remember my decision" and click Skip.

Update: It looks like the "Remember by decision" checkbox is per-workspace, and not global.

Answer 2

You can disable the news polling at: Window > Preferences > General > News.

Uncheck the the checkbox "Enable automatic news polling". Screenshot with the settings panel

Answer 3

I couldn't find a central setting but what I ended up doing is have a template workspace with default preferences (news disabled, dark theme etc.) and inherit from that.

So when I start a new project I open my default workspace, then go to File → Switch Workspace → Other.... In the workspace I browse to where I want my new workspace to be (usually I have a master workspace and a bunch of sub-workspaces) and I make sure I check Copy Settings → Preferences.