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Bug 352476

Summary:	Windows 7 jumplist tasks dissappear after opening Eclipse help
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	someone <temp4746>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	cgold, eclipse.felipe, ob1.eclipse, pwebster, remy.suen, shawn.minto, steffen.pingel
Version:	3.7	Keywords:	api
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description someone

2011-07-19 11:21:24 EDT

Build Identifier: 20110615-0604

Windows 7 jumplist tasks dissappear after opening Eclipse help

Eclipse Indigo 3.7 Java Package
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Internet Explorer 9 installed

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Look that you have jumplist tasks in the Eclipse icon, for example the ones for mylyn.
2. Open the help (Help->Help Contents)
3. The Tasks have dissappeared until you restart Eclipse.

Comment 1 Oleg Besedin

2011-07-19 16:50:35 EDT

I can reproduce this on the similar software stack.

Is this specific to Mylyn?

My understanding is that we have some support at SWT level (bug 293229) and Mylyn (bug 304234 comment 10).

Comment 2 Shawn Minto

2011-07-19 18:09:46 EDT

Yes, the support is provided by SWT, but Mylyn contributes actions to it.  It seems what is happening is that when the Help window is opened, it has the same application ID as Eclipse, but is separate so it creates a separate system task bar item (as there can only be one per application that is shown in the task bar).  There is a similar problem if you open 2 Eclipse instances that the second one will overwrite the task bar items of the first one.

Comment 3 Felipe Heidrich

2011-07-26 12:38:54 EDT

Shawn, I think the workbench should manage contribution to the jump list, agreed ? please move this to UI if you agree with me. Thank you.

Comment 4 Shawn Minto

2011-07-27 12:51:39 EDT

Yes, I agree that platform should manage the contribution and ensure that this doesn't happen when help is opened.  There is already a bug for managing this. 

304234: [UX] Provide jumplist actions in the Eclipse icon on the Windows 7 Task Bar
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=304234

Comment 5 Oleg Besedin

2011-07-27 13:54:50 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> Shawn, I think the workbench should manage contribution to the jump list,
> agreed ? please move this to UI if you agree with me. Thank you.

Just a note that Platform/UI doesn't have any code to deal with jumplists, so this is a request for new functionality.

Comment 6 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 03:53:53 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

If the bug is still relevant, please remove the "stalebug" whiteboard tag.