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Bug 335067

Summary:	Provide alternative sort order for tasks in open/activate task dialog
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:	steffen.pingel
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Sam Davis

2011-01-21 17:45:42 EST

It would be useful to be able to see tasks in the open/activate task dialog sorted with scheduled tasks and recently created tasks at the top. This would be particularly nice when trying to copy context to a scheduled task.

Comment 1 Sam Davis

2011-02-22 21:40:22 EST

I'm always trying to find a task I was looking at earlier, and it's really hard if I don't remember the title. It would be useful to be able to see:

* recently opened tasks, as opposed to recently activated
* tasks I recently commented or made other changes to
* tasks that recently had incomings

Comment 2 Steffen Pingel

2011-08-11 07:57:33 EDT

I often activate tasks that I had active before so the current behavior works well for me and is easy to comprehend. I see your point though. We could support this through a seeing in the dialog. It would be interesting to see if the ordering suggested in comment#1 is even more useful than the current implementation.

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

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.

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