Bug 346664

Description John 2011-05-20 08:39:28 EDT

Build Identifier: I20110518-2200

in windows 7, all trees have those kind of triangles that fade out which are used to expand/collapse items that have children. When the mouse is not hovering over the tree they fade and 

you're unable to tell at a glance if the node has children or not, 
for example in package explorer. This is rather time consuming and frustratingly annoying (not just in eclipse but also in any other place).

The [+] / [-] type of expand/collapse buttons would be preferable, also prevent them from fading out (because it's possible to see them and still fade out; the variant of seeing triangles and prevent them fading out is also possible)

for your information, here is a C# program that attempts to change all trees currently visible (and not in minimized windows) of all programs running in ie. windows 7 (assuming you have admin rights - ie. logging in as admin) into old style trees with [+] / [-] and without fading out. 


The OS does not provide a way to disable the fade out of expand/collapse buttons, even if they eventually do change to [+] / [-]. I tried to find a way once and failed due to lack of immediate access to what I though I needed in order to understand and apply a workaround fix.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
like run eclipse in windows 7 (or vista?) and click in the package explorer then click in the editor while looking at the package explorer's expand/collapse buttons fade out, now which one has children and which not?

also same for Window->Preferences