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Bug 263986

Summary:	Context copy-to: should it have a chechbox for toggling "switch to task"
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Thomas Ehrnhoefer <thomas.ehrnhoefer>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	Keywords:	helpwanted
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Thomas Ehrnhoefer

2009-02-06 13:29:21 EST

Most of the time I am using context-copy-to I want to start working on the target Task, so having mylyn automatically changing the active task to the target task is great.
But although bein a feature people might desire, it is not really expected, at least the first times I was like "hey, what happened? oh, it switched, hm, ah, ok, I want that anyway".

I think by providing a checkbox that lets the user choose between switching active task or not (and being enabled per default) the user would actually not be surprised by the switch at all. And the rare usecase of wanting to stay in the current task. the user can select that.

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2009-02-06 15:50:30 EST

+1 sounds like a good idea. The automatic switching can be surprising. There should at least be a message in the dialog.

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

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