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Bug 214342

Summary: [GlobalActions] Check box text for starting build from the Clean dialog is confusing
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Eric ter Haar <eric.ter.haar>
Component: UIAssignee: Paul Webster <pwebster>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: P5 CC: aleherb+eclipse, andrew.ferguson, daniel_megert, remy.suen
Version: 3.3Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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'Clean' dialog from the I20080206-0010 build. none

Description Eric ter Haar CLA 2008-01-04 07:29:06 EST 
Build ID: M20070921-1145

From the "Start a build immediately" text in the Project -> Clean dialog it is not clear that this builds the workspace. Users expect that when a single project is cleaned only the cleaned project is built.
Changing the text in something like "Start build of workspace immediately" will set the right expectations.
Comment 1 Anton Leherbauer CLA 2008-01-07 05:46:16 EST 
Moving to Platform/UI.
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2008-02-08 23:16:10 EST 
Created attachment 89328 [details]
'Clean' dialog from the I20080206-0010 build.

As you can see from the above, the current build dialog doesn't seem to have the same text that you described in comment 0. Do you have suggestions for this altered dialog or are you fine with it?
Comment 3 Eric ter Haar CLA 2008-02-11 04:26:36 EST 
It appears that you have to switch off "Build automatically" (Project menu) to let the checkbox "Start a build immediately" appear in the clean dialog. And that is the text I propose to change.
Comment 4 Remy Suen CLA 2008-02-11 22:10:02 EST 
(In reply to comment #3)
> It appears that you have to switch off "Build automatically" (Project menu) to
> let the checkbox "Start a build immediately" appear in the clean dialog. And
> that is the text I propose to change.

Thanks for the tip, I see it now.

So you are saying that it builds the whole workspace instead of the projects that have been checked?
Comment 5 Eric ter Haar CLA 2008-02-12 03:27:07 EST 
That's correct. I'm using CDT and there it is probably a bit more obvious than with JDT, where one usually has build automatically enabled.
To reproduce: do a clean of all projects without the "Start a build immediately" checkbox enabled. Then do a clean of a single project with the "Start a build immediately" enabled. You will see that it starts a build all.
Comment 6 Dani Megert CLA 2013-08-21 05:56:56 EDT 
This has been fixed a while ago: the dialog now allows to select what gets built.
Comment 7 Dani Megert CLA 2013-08-21 05:57:38 EDT 
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 194025 ***