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Bug 208254

Summary: [Markers] "Problems" views could show if errors are present or only warning
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Olivier Vierlinck <olivier.vierlinck>
Component: IDEAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Hitesh <hsoliwal>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 CC: olivier.vierlinck, remy.suen
Version: 3.3Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Olivier Vierlinck CLA 2007-10-31 11:34:26 EDT 
"Problems" views is updated regularly (on save, recompile,...)
If something is present in the Problem list, the "Problems" name of the tab is shown in bold.
This is a nice feature.
Would it be possible to go even further and show if the new content has error or not, because quite often, warnings don't need to be looked at immediately but more often during some clean-up phase; on the other hand, errors should be addressed rapidly.

Using distinct icons would be nice. Currently, the icon is fixed, red and yellow. 
For example showing a red cross (or white cross in red box, like for compiler error in the editor view and package explorer) if errors are present and a yellow question mark if no errors but only warnings

What do you think?
Comment 1 Tod Creasey CLA 2007-10-31 15:35:21 EDT 
An interesting idea - we would need to find a way to play with the icon and then decide if having an inconsistent one was OK.

Even changing font colours is an option too
Comment 2 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-07-15 12:17:55 EDT 
"As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009"
Comment 3 Remy Suen CLA 2011-11-18 11:00:46 EST 
The view's icon will now be decorated if a warning or error is present.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 170244 ***