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Bug 356575

Summary:	Quick Switch Editor (Ctrl+E) should mark active editor bold
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Dani Megert <daniel_megert>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	psuzzi, remy.suen, waav_zoungla-efc7
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://git.eclipse.org/r/71082
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	70982
Bug Blocks:

Description Dani Megert

2011-09-02 08:03:59 EDT

I20110816-2000.

Quick Switch Editor (Ctrl+E) should mark active editor bold.

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-09-02 08:31:44 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> Quick Switch Editor (Ctrl+E) should mark active editor bold.

I don't see this in 3.x. I see they're bold if the editor isn't currently visible though. Is this a new enhancement request, Dani?

Also see bug 179331.

Comment 2 Amenel Voglozin

2013-08-07 11:25:05 EDT

I believe marking it italic is better. As Remy said, bold is already used for a different purpose.

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2013-08-12 09:00:36 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't see this in 3.x.

Correct. This is not a compatibility issue, but also an issue in 3.x.


(In reply to comment #2)
> I believe marking it italic is better. As Remy said, bold is already used
> for a different purpose.

The problem is that bold is wrongly used to mark hidden items (70982). Only when that bug is fixed, we can address this one.

Note that we use bold and not italic all over the place to mark selected/matched items.

Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2016-04-20 11:23:54 EDT

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/71082

Comment 5 Dani Megert

2016-05-26 07:59:08 EDT

(In reply to Eclipse Genie from comment #4)
> New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/71082

That's one part of the fix. The other part is, we need to distinguish the visible from the non-visible parts. I've discussed this with Markus and a good solution might be to draw a line between them. This should be done like in the Quick Access popup (Ctrl+3).

Comment 6 Amenel Voglozin

2016-08-24 18:55:59 EDT

The Gerrit change seems to be on hold: there's currently a "Cannot merge" message on it.

The dividing line is an idea. An overlay symbol on the icon of the file is another.

Comment 7 Dani Megert

2017-05-24 05:47:01 EDT

In 4.7 RC1 the active editor is italic and on top.