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Bug 159470

Summary: Palette view needs better text when editor not up
Product: [Tools] GEF Reporter: Thom Haynes <haynest>
Component: GEF-Legacy GEF (MVC)Assignee: gef-inbox <gef-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: ahunter.eclipse
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Thom Haynes CLA 2006-10-02 13:13:53 EDT 
When a view is empty, it's good practice to have some text in there to help the user understand what the view is for, and how to make it useful.

The JavaBeans view has useful text in that situation: "Used with the Visual Editor for Java" but the Palette view doesn't (IMHO): "A palette is not available"

I don't necessarily have a better bit of text to offer, I just know I don't like what's currently used ;-) The palette is probably used for lots of editors, so maybe hard to be anything other than generic. Try for some sort of positive, helpful info.
Comment 1 Anthony Hunter CLA 2007-09-25 22:08:55 EDT 
The phrase "A palette is not available" matches other Eclipse views, such as the outline view, etc.