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Bug 21502

Summary: "Open new view as fast view" preference is ignored
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Knut Radloff <knut_radloff>
Component: UIAssignee: Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description Knut Radloff CLA 2002-07-11 15:29:16 EDT 
build R2.0

I have that preference selected. Yet, new views I open are not opened as a fast 
view.
Comment 1 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-07-12 09:31:46 EDT 
All views or just certain views?  If the perspective has a placeholder for a 
view, then it honours the placeholder.  This is admittedly confusing.
Comment 2 Knut Radloff CLA 2002-07-12 09:49:58 EDT 
You are right. It's just certain views. I must've just tried this with views 
that have placeholders.
E.g., I knew that the CVS Repositories view and the Synchronize view used to 
pop up as fast views. This is true for the Java perspective but not for the 
Resource perspective. The navigator never pops up as a fast view, not even in 
the debug perspective where most other views seem to not have a placeholder.

Is this relatively new behavior? 
I don't like it. If I choose that new views should be fast views I mean it! 
This is even more confusing since this behavior depends on the perspective. I 
end up never knowing if a view is going to be shown as a fast view.
Was the rationale that programmatically opened views should use the designated 
placeholder? Maybe the behavior should be different for user opened views?
Comment 3 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-07-12 14:21:55 EDT 
The Debug perspective adds placeholders for the Navigator and other standard 
views in DebugPerspectiveFactory.

JDT UI creates placeholders for some of its views in the Debug perspective and 
Resource perspective using the perspectiveExtensions extension point.

Should probably ignore view placeholders when the pref is for fast views.

Lynne has also encountered this and found it confusing.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19079 ***