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Bug 22552

Summary: Merge Types and Hierarchy pane
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Gary Gregory <ggregory>
Component: UIAssignee: Erich Gamma <erich_gamma>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: dirk_baeumer
Version: 2.0Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Gary Gregory CLA 2002-08-19 20:17:45 EDT 
I would like to propose that the Type and Hierarchy panes be merged into one 
and that viewing an alphabetical list or a class hierarchy just be an attribue 
toggle for each instance of the new pane to be remembered by each persepective.

The Types and Hierarch context menus are slightly different and quite similar 
at the same time. At the very least both context menus should be the same: I 
cannot create a "New..." class from the Hierarchy menu. 

Thank you.
Comment 1 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2002-08-20 06:42:31 EDT 
Currently the types pane is linked to a package and only shows the content of 
the selected package. This is fast (contains relation ship) and the types pane 
updates whenever the package content changes. In contrast building a type 
hierarchy for a package is expensive. So we can't update the hierarchy on 
selection changes nor when the content of a packages changes. So allowing this 
view in a browsing perspective would break the "browsing" nature of that 
perspective.

There are no plans to add this support for 2.x or 3.0. But feel free to supply 
a patch and we are definitelly looking at the code.