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Bug 323237

Summary: [Preferences] Avoiding horizontal scrollbars in the Tree part of the Eclipse Preferences Dialog
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Anirudh Sasikumar <anirudhsasikumar>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: francisu, mayankk, prakash, remy.suen
Version: 4.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: stalebug
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Scrollbar in preference dialog tree part none

Description Anirudh Sasikumar CLA 2010-08-20 07:50:55 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

In the Eclipse Preferences dialog, expanding the tree to Java -> Code Style -> Code Templates shows a horizontal scrollbar in the tree part.

A way to (maybe optionally) avoid this or indicate a default width for that area would be great so that Eclipse products like Flash Builder can avoid this.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Anirudh Sasikumar CLA 2010-08-20 07:53:06 EDT 
Created attachment 177083 [details]
Scrollbar in preference dialog tree part
Comment 2 Eric Moffatt CLA 2010-08-24 14:54:46 EDT 
This is a very tricky problem...if we were to re-size the tree to never have a horizontal scroll bar there are instances where there'd be very little (if any) space left over on the right to actually work on the preferences.

Note that it isn't enough to base this off of some 'suggested width' for the preference set because the amount of space necessary will change based on which language you're using.
Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 15:31:30 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 4 Eclipse Genie CLA 2021-11-06 07:14:32 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. 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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