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| Summary: | [context] Task context should remember which tasks were open | ||
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| Product: | z_Archived | Reporter: | Sam Davis <sam.davis> |
| Component: | Mylyn | Assignee: | Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged> |
| Status: | CLOSED MOVED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | p.bodnar, shawn.minto, steffen.pingel |
| Version: | unspecified | Keywords: | helpwanted |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows 7 | ||
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Description
Sam Davis
Tasks are not considered to be part of the context and hence not managed when restoring editors. I do see your point however that there are cases where it would be nice to have open tasks restored on activation. I am not sure how common the need for this feature is but we could consider adding a preference to the UI experiments to enable this? Sam, any thoughts on making this a preference that is exposed through the UI Experiments? It might be worth trying. I don't know whether you would want all opened tasks to be restored if you could be smarter about which tasks to restore. Adding my vote on this! Sam, to your question - I would keep it simple, i. e. simply open all tasks which were open, how "smarter" could it be? I guess it would be some huge architectural change to the context code base and that's why the Mylyn developers hesitate to implement this feature? Actually, I think it would be pretty easy. The reason for not implementing it (other than lack of time) is that for many people it's not desired, because you often open unrelated tasks while working on something, to view incomings. Adding a preference to enable it seems reasonable, but low priority since few people would likely bother to enable it. The bug has been marked helpwanted to indicate that we would be happy to support a community contribution to resolve it. (In reply to Sam Davis from comment #5) That's funny, I'm seeing it quite contrary - i. e. many people should find this useful as they typically open *related* tasks :) But thanks for the explanation, maybe I will look at it some day if you say it's principally easy... :) 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. [1] https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-mylyn |