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Bug 205974

Summary: Window->"Preferences..." shouldn't have ellipsis
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire>
Component: UIAssignee: Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert
Version: 3.3   
Target Milestone: 3.4 M7   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 226468    

Description Kevin McGuire CLA 2007-10-10 15:25:46 EDT 
The "Preferences" menu item shouldn't have ellipsis since it doesn't require additional information.  Same was "Properties" doesn't.
Comment 1 Kevin McGuire CLA 2008-04-09 15:37:40 EDT 
Fixed in HEAD
Comment 2 Kevin McGuire CLA 2008-04-09 15:37:51 EDT 
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Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2008-04-16 09:19:55 EDT 
How exactly do you define "it doesn't require additional information. "? E.g. how does the preference dialog differ from the Perspective configuration dialog? The preference dialog also needs additional info, at least, which preference you want to change ;-)

I guess we then have to go through the whole UI and change it because so far we added '...' when a (modal) dialog came up - simple rule.
Comment 4 Kevin McGuire CLA 2008-04-16 10:22:47 EDT 
(Dani, please see refering bug so we don't have discussion in two places)
Comment 5 Kevin McGuire CLA 2008-04-30 19:55:38 EDT 
verified in I20080429-0100
Comment 6 Karsten Wutzke CLA 2009-04-15 16:23:59 EDT 
This is such a stupid bug report. To set the Preferences, you actually need a *hell* of additional information! The MS Vista guidelines that were probably used as input are completely unapproved. Vista has failed anyway. Look at the book "GUI Bloopers 2.0" for a real reference: Blooper 31, pp. 193 - 196!