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Bug 137267

Summary:	[Preferences] centralised setting for number of items to remember for combo-boxes
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Noel Grandin <noelgrandin>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	helpwanted
Version:	3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Noel Grandin

2006-04-18 11:59:41 EDT

Use case: 
I am very very lazy and I tend to work on a lot of different things in the course of a day. 
This means that I tend to generate lots of entries in those comboboxes that remember entries.
But most comboboxes will only remember about 8-12 entries.

I have submitted patches in bug 72151 and bug 90569, but those patches have been rightly criticised because comboboxes don't work well with large numbers of items.

I agree :-) but I'd like to be able to choose raw functionality over pure ease of use.

It would be nice if there were a centralised eclipse setting which the various "history preserving" comboboxes used for the number of items to remember.

Thanks.

Comment 1 Tod Creasey

2007-03-14 15:33:05 EDT

We are not currently planning this feature. If we did I would imagine the retrofit work required would be huge.

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2009-08-30 02:24:51 EDT

As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.