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Bug 34960

Summary:	[Tasks] Task view should not be brought to the front when no new tasks appear in the list
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Victor Gonzalez Jr <victor>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	usability
Version:	2.1
Target Milestone:	3.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Victor Gonzalez Jr

2003-03-13 15:17:39 EST

This is related to enhancement PR #2066, were the tasks view is brought to front
whenever markers of error or warning severity get added.

The tasks view has a feature were you can filter out what type of tasks appear
in that view. For the sake of a test case, say that you set a filter to not show
Java Problems. The next time a compiling error happens, the Tasks view will be
brought to the front, even though there are no new tasks to view (Because they
are been filter out.) The correct behaviour would be for the tasks view to only
be brought to front, if there were new visible tasks to view.

This is particular a large issue, when one has developed a new type of problem
markers to be displayed in a different view. The tasks view will continue to
grab the focus away, even though there is nothing to view there.

Comment 1 Nick Edgar

2003-03-13 15:45:49 EST

This is definitely a usability problem, however we are in our final fix pass 
for 2.1 and this is not critical enough to make the cut.  We will address this 
for 2.2.  

The workaround is to disable the bring-to-front behaviour using the preference 
on the Workbench preference page.

Comment 2 Sebastian Davids

2004-03-04 23:14:42 EST

bug 42967 is similar

Comment 3 Michael Van Meekeren

2004-05-25 12:10:13 EDT

the problems view no longer opens or comes to the front for free.  There is 
support (via the view font) to indicate a changed state in the view.