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Bug 207443

Summary: [EditorMgmt] Allow to define the Icon for an Editor that is shown but not restored
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Benjamin Pasero <bpasero>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: alokmanjrekar, angvoz.dev, bokowski, fabiofz, Kevin_McGuire, loskutov, pwebster, rcraddoc, thimo.emmerich, tom.schindl
Version: 3.3.1Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Benjamin Pasero CLA 2007-10-25 09:45:08 EDT 
When Eclipse is restoring Editors after startup, only the input for the currently visible Editor is loaded for performance reasons. Any other Editor stacked behind is shown with the generic Icon of the Editor and the name of the last input.

Now, in my RCP application the icon of the editor changes depending on the contents of the input. So, only a single editor is registered in the plugin.xml with a default icon. Now, the problem is that after restart, all editors that are not yet loaded show the wrong icon (the generic one and not the specific one indicating the content of the input).

Of course I dont want Eclipse to load the full editor input on startup only to determine the right icon, however, since the name of the editor is already correct without loading the input, I would expect to also get the right icon to be restored without loading the input.

There should be a way to override this behavior. What about having a special key for the memento in IEditorInput#getPersistable() that contains the path to the icon that is to be shown for the unrestored editor of this input?

But maybe I am overseeing something here and what I request is already possible?

Ben
Comment 1 Thomas Schindl CLA 2007-10-25 10:03:00 EDT 
The same is true of Views too
Comment 2 Thomas Schindl CLA 2007-10-27 10:19:41 EDT 
I think this is also related to bug #198443
Comment 3 Paul Webster CLA 2008-10-03 10:31:09 EDT 
*** Bug 249603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Anton Leherbauer CLA 2009-06-03 04:04:25 EDT 
*** Bug 278742 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-17 13:01:57 EST 
Remy is now responsible for watching the [EditorMgmt] component area.
Comment 6 Remy Suen CLA 2010-04-12 14:04:52 EDT 
*** Bug 308740 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Paul Webster CLA 2013-09-18 08:47:17 EDT 
*** Bug 409332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-01-05 17:38:37 EST 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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