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Bug 2774

Summary: Export: Changing Filters should not affect selection (1GJLOHI)
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Carolyn MacLeod <carolynmacleod4>
Component: UIAssignee: Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 Keywords: usability
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Carolyn MacLeod CLA 2001-10-10 22:43:17 EDT
Click on a project.
	Pop up the context menu.
	Now File->Export...
	Zip File,  Next
	Note that in the list of resources to export, your selected project is checked, as desired.
	Now click on "Select Types..." and check ".class" because you do not want to export your .class files.
	Click ok.

	What the???  For some unexplicable reason all projects are now being checked???
	(Grey checkboxes because the .class files are being filtered, but checked nonetheless).

	This is very inconvenient, because:
	a) you have to wait for the projects to get checked, which is actually a lengthy process that takes more than several seconds.
	b) this is not what you wanted at all - you already have a project checked - you only want to filter the .class files from that project.

	The Type Filter should honour my current project selection, and not gratuitously go selecting all of the projects in my workspace.

	PS: I am also wondering if the button shouldn't be named "Deselect Types..." because that is closer to the truth.
	In fact, I would reorder the three buttons as follows:  Select All  |  Deselect All   |   Deselect Types...

NOTES:
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2001-10-29 19:15:47 EST
PRODUCT VERSION:
	134

Comment 2 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-04-30 09:12:03 EDT
Obsolete. Select types is a filter now.
Comment 3 Tod Creasey CLA 2005-05-10 14:56:34 EDT
Marking closed