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Bug 318326

Summary:	[Help] Help app should have distinctive Help icon
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt>
Component:	User Assistance	Assignee:	platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	cgold, prakash
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Alex Blewitt

2010-06-29 09:59:35 EDT

Build Identifier: 

When opening a Help application, the same Eclipse icon is shown in the taskbar and in the fast application switchers (alt tab/cmd tab). It would be great if this opened with a more distinctive help icon - like an Eclipse icon with a (?) in the middle of it, so that it can be easily distinguished from the other applications running at the time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Help -> Help Contents
2. See newly-launched Help browser uses same Eclipse application

Comment 1 Alex Blewitt

2010-06-29 10:05:42 EDT

Not sure why but it defaulted to 3.3 when I filed it ...

Comment 2 Prakash Rangaraj

2010-07-29 05:42:07 EDT

Moving to UA

Comment 3 Chris Goldthorpe

2011-02-03 18:48:08 EST

The Icon used for help will be the same one as for the product launching help, in the case of the Eclipse SDK that is the Eclipse logo but for an Eclipse based product it will use the icon defined by that product. I think this is better than using a separate icon for help because if you have two Eclipse products running and one has help open you can tell which product the help belongs to.

Comment 4 Lars Vogel

2019-09-24 13:58:55 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2022-01-15 08:03:34 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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