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Bug 348154

Summary:

Some of the icon adornments are not documented

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Steve Kelem <steve>

Component:

Doc

Assignee:

Platform-Doc-Inbox <platform-doc-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

daniel_megert, StijnDeWitt

Version:

3.6.1

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

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Description Steve Kelem

2011-06-02 20:06:59 EDT

Build Identifier: M20100909-0800

I hope to attach part of a screenshot showing the Package Explorer.
1. Some of the package icons have an adornment of a white asterisk on a black background.
2. A java file and a class has an orange rectangle attached to them.

What are these? They need to be included in 
Help/Java development user guide/Reference/Wizards and Dialogs/Icons

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Help
2. Click through to Java development user guide/Reference/Wizards and Dialogs/Icons
3. Search for a package icon with an adornment of a white asterisk on a black background
4. Search for a java file and a class with an adornment of an orange rectangle.

Comment 1 Steve Kelem

2011-06-02 20:07:47 EDT

Created attachment 197285 [details]
small portion of a screenshot showing the mysterious icons

Comment 2 Steve Kelem

2011-06-02 20:10:54 EDT

I found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3917925/what-do-the-arrow-icons-in-subclipse-mean/3920248#3920248
which has an explanation for the icons and adornments that subclipse adds.

Can these be added to the Help?  It confuses the users when the icons can't be found in the documentation, even if they may not have originated there.

Thanks for your help!

Comment 3 John Arthorne

2011-06-02 21:45:50 EDT

Here is a link to documentation of these icons in the CVS user guide:

http://help.eclipse.org/helios/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/reference/ref-cvs-decorations.htm

Here is a link to documentation of these icons in the SVN user guide:

http://help.eclipse.org/helios/topic/org.eclipse.team.svn.help/teamSupport/svn_label_decor.html

I don't see the asterisk icon in the SVN guide, so maybe they are missing that one (or you are using CVS?)

Comment 4 Stijn de Witt

2013-03-13 07:24:07 EDT

"Some of the package icons have an adornment of a white asterisk on a black background."

Yes, I came here looking for the meaning of that one. :)

"A file with local, uncommitted changes."

According to this StackOverflow page:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3917925/what-do-the-arrow-icons-in-subclipse-mean/3920248#3920248

Comment 5 Dani Megert

2013-03-13 09:09:59 EDT

The icons from the SDK are document as John mentioned in comment 3. If other plug-ins, like e.g. SVN, introduce new ones, then it is their task to document them.