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Bug 125985

Summary:	[PresentationAPI] Show icons for inactive views in certain folders
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Thomas Schindl <tom.schindl>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Paul Webster <pwebster>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	eclipse, n.a.edgar
Version:	3.2	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	4.4 M7
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Thomas Schindl

2006-02-01 03:01:18 EST

I'm uncertain because may this is already possible and I simply haven't found it.

It would be nice if one can set some flag when creating the ITableFolderLayout to always display the Tab-Image. Actually it is vanishing if another View is focused.

Comment 1 Kim Horne

2006-02-07 11:40:44 EST

Can you tell me what package ITableFolderLayout is in?  I can't find it in our source or via a Google search.

Comment 2 Thomas Schindl

2006-02-07 12:48:27 EST

pas de problem ;-)
The Interface can be found: 
 - org.eclipse.ui.IFolderLayout

The Class implementing this Interface: 
 - org.eclipse.ui.internal.FolderLayout

The responsible to to show icons on focus lost time is: 
 - org.eclipse.ui.presentations.WorkbenchPresentationFactory
   The code in question is:
   ----------------8<----------------------
   public StackPresentation createViewPresentation(Composite parent,
            IStackPresentationSite site) {
       // ...
       folder.setUnselectedImageVisible(false);
       // ...
   }

My idea is to add the following methods to IFolderLayout:
 - public void setUnselectedImageVisible(boolean unselectedImageVisible);
 - public boolean getUnselectedImageVisible();

And the it could be used like at the moment e.g.: setCloseable(), setMoveable()

Comment 3 Thomas Schindl

2006-02-07 12:55:38 EST

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you tell me what package ITableFolderLayout is in?  I can't find it in our
> source or via a Google search.
> 

sorry should be FolderLayout, corrected the title

Comment 4 Nick Edgar

2006-02-07 13:38:10 EST

It's currently the active presentation (org.eclipse.ui.presentations extension point) that gets to decide whether to show icons for inactive views or not.

Are you requesting an overall change to the application look and feel, or do you really want per-folder control over this?

The former could be addressed by using a different presentation, or adding a preference to the default presentation to show icons for inactive views.

Comment 5 Thomas Schindl

2006-02-08 02:49:40 EST

I didn't know that this is possible how can I control with presentation is selected? I've started learning RCP by taking a look at the Mail-Example. How can I change the presentation to have one showing inactive icons.

Nevertheless I think it would be nice to control whether icons should be shown when the tab is inactive would be a nice feature. At the moment you can also control whether e.g. the title is shown or not and you have not to change the presentation.

Comment 6 Nick Edgar

2006-02-08 09:27:46 EST

For more on the presentations mechanism, see:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/RCP_FAQ#presentations

Comment 7 Paul Webster

2006-09-28 11:01:34 EDT

There are currently no plans to work on this feature.

PW

Comment 8 Denis Roy

2007-06-22 09:33:18 EDT

Changes requested on bug 193523

Comment 9 Lars Vogel

2014-05-02 04:47:45 EDT

The PresentationAPI has been deprecated with the Eclipse 4.x release and it has been replaced with the CSS engine. I therefore close this bugs as WONTFIX. In case your bug report is still valid for the Eclipse 4.4 release, please open a new bug report for it.