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Bug 184526

Summary: Target Platform/Location box not intuitive
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Robert Konigsberg <konigsberg>
Component: UIAssignee: PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Robert Konigsberg CLA 2007-04-27 17:55:59 EDT 
Build ID: I20070323-1616

Steps To Reproduce:
Preferences/Plug-in Development/Target Platform.

If I type into the Target Platform's Location dialog box, several things happen. My intent, by the way, is to navigate to "/opt/eclipse"

1. When I type "/", there is a delay as Eclipse tries to resolve "/". I can't keep typing, and there is a delay.
2. As I type "/opt/eclipse", since Eclipse spending more time looking at the filesystem and displaying a dialog box, some of my keystrokes are missed, so typing "/opt/eclipse" sometimes winds up as "/opt/eclise", and so on.
3. Every change to the text box results in adding to the text box's history.

Suggested resolution: delay 0.5 seconds before taking the change.

I will attach an image of the drop-down.

More information:
Comment 1 Robert Konigsberg CLA 2007-04-27 17:58:32 EDT 
Created attachment 65281 [details]
Screenshot of bug after it does its dirty work
Comment 2 Wassim Melhem CLA 2007-04-27 19:11:18 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 175321 ***