Today I've wanted to change something in a trac instance I have setup for a project, when I thought: "I wish there was a way to do this from inside Eclipse". And there is! After a bit of searching (this information is available from the Trac site), I've discovered that Eclipse has a project that handles task based programming, project called Mylar, which has a Trac connector plugin financed through a Google Summer of Code project. I've installed the XML-RPC interface plugin for Trac, connected it to Eclipse and I can now enjoy viewing, creating and editing tickets in my Eclipse.