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Bug 2140

Summary: [Bookmarks] Multiple equivalent bookmarks allowed (1GE8HPH)
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Kevin Haaland <Kevin_Haaland>
Component: UIAssignee: Chris McLaren <csmclaren>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 Keywords: investigate
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Windows All   
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Description Kevin Haaland CLA 2001-10-10 22:27:17 EDT 
The workbench allows you to bookmark the same file multiple times.  There is no
reason or need for this.

1) Open the resource perspective (Perspective->Open->0 Resource)
2) Create a new project
3) Add a file to the project
4) Right-click on the file and select "Add Bookmark"
5) Right-click on the file and select "Add Bookmark"
6) Show the bookmarks view (Perspective->Show View->Bookmarks

Notice multiple entries of the same bookmark, they all point to the same file so only
one bookmark is really needed.

NOTES:
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2001-10-29 17:54:25 EST 
PRODUCT VERSION:
jre-win32-Eclipse-SDK-0.110
Comment 2 Kevin Haaland CLA 2002-01-21 20:37:59 EST 
Defer
Comment 3 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-08-07 16:13:48 EDT 
Reopen for investigation
Comment 4 Chris McLaren CLA 2003-01-29 15:19:21 EST 
jeff h. seems to think that there is value in creating multiple bookmarks at 
the same location: esp. if it is on a file and you choose a name of the 
bookmark which is significant to the reason you bookmarked it. i think he is 
correct. bookmarks support names, so they are similar to tasks in many ways 
(perhaps too many, but that is another issue). now that you can rename and 
sort bookmarks in a table like tasks, i'd like to leave this 'functionality' 
in.