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Bug 366444

Summary:	Pressing F1 does not reveal docs for some context-menu actions in the package explorer
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Helmut J. Haigermoser <helmut.haigermoser>
Component:	Doc	Assignee:	Platform-Doc-Inbox <platform-doc-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	366512, 366513
Bug Blocks:

Description Helmut J. Haigermoser

2011-12-12 13:04:03 EST

Build Identifier: Several actions lack 

Context sensitive help for actions in menus is great. For example, I can hover on top of my "Refresh" action, press F1 and get a one-sentence description of what this will do to me if I choose to use. However, there are some actions that don't have this working (the list is not complete of course):
- Team/*
- Restore from Local History
...


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right click a project in your package explorer view
2. Hover on top of an action and press F1
3. Check if an appropriate help message comes up

Comment 1 Helmut J. Haigermoser

2011-12-12 13:04:36 EST

CQ:WIND00086167

*setting version to 3.7*

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2011-12-13 02:42:33 EST

Sorry, but I'm marking this bug as INVALID because each action is responsible to provide the F1 help. You need to file the bugs against each component (not Doc) listing the actions you're missing the F1 help.

Comment 3 Helmut J. Haigermoser

2011-12-13 05:45:41 EST

(In reply to comment #2)
> Sorry, but I'm marking this bug as INVALID because each action is responsible
> to provide the F1 help. You need to file the bugs against each component (not
> Doc) listing the actions you're missing the F1 help.

Dani, I'm not sure that's the right approach for this issue. To the user it does not matter who contributed the action, the user sees Eclipse as a whole. Can we keep this bugzilla as an umbrella bugzilla around, I've since created two children for it to take care of Team/* and "Replace with Local History" ...

Helmut

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2011-12-13 05:56:46 EST

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Sorry, but I'm marking this bug as INVALID because each action is responsible
> > to provide the F1 help. You need to file the bugs against each component (not
> > Doc) listing the actions you're missing the F1 help.
> 
> Dani, I'm not sure that's the right approach for this issue. To the user it
> does not matter who contributed the action, the user sees Eclipse as a whole.
> Can we keep this bugzilla as an umbrella bugzilla around,

Well, it's still around, isn't it ;-). But we shouldn't reopen. Actions coming from CDT or EGit will also suffer from this and there's nothing the Platform can do about it.

Comment 5 Helmut J. Haigermoser

2011-12-13 06:56:22 EST

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #2)
> > > Sorry, but I'm marking this bug as INVALID because each action is responsible
> > > to provide the F1 help. You need to file the bugs against each component (not
> > > Doc) listing the actions you're missing the F1 help.
> > 
> > Dani, I'm not sure that's the right approach for this issue. To the user it
> > does not matter who contributed the action, the user sees Eclipse as a whole.
> > Can we keep this bugzilla as an umbrella bugzilla around,
> 
> Well, it's still around, isn't it ;-). But we shouldn't reopen. Actions coming
> from CDT or EGit will also suffer from this and there's nothing the Platform
> can do about it.

*g* Alright, I'll use this as the umbrella then, linking in all children I create so we have a common bucket for these kinds of requests! :)