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Bug 317228

Summary:	Can't distinguish between 'Mac OS X' and 'Mac OS X - Cocoa' in bug lists
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Scott Kovatch <skovatch>
Component:	Bugzilla	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Scott Kovatch

2010-06-17 14:24:55 EDT

I have a bug search that returns all of the current SWT 'Mac OS X' and 'Mac OS X - Cocoa' bugs. The problem is that if I select the 'OS' column for the report I see 'Mac' and nothing else. Sorting on the field helps a bit, but then I have to remember whether 'Mac OS X' or 'Mac OS X - Cocoa' will come first in the sort.

I'm not sure what the best solution is -- I would imagine someone sorting on Windows would have the same problem. In my case, bugs that are strictly in the Mac Carbon port have a lower priority than Mac Cocoa bugs, so the OS field isn't just an interesting datapoint.

If there were some way to set a short name for the OS field, and then use that in the lists, that would be helpful. There's always renaming to 'Cocoa - Mac OS X' and 'Carbon - Mac OS X', but that ends up making the Mac values different from all of the others.

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2010-06-18 09:42:31 EDT

The template sets the maximum length of the OS field to 4 characters.  I've extended it to 9 -- this also helps identify the various Windows flavours too.

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2010-06-18 09:48:04 EDT

I meant, I extended it to 14 characters.

Comment 3 Scott Kovatch

2010-06-18 12:01:13 EDT

Looks good! I'll take it. Thanks for the fast turnaround.