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Bug 368599

Summary:	Activate previous task activates wrong task
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Sam Davis <sam.davis>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Sam Davis

2012-01-13 19:20:53 EST

* Activate tasks A,B,C in order
* With Task C active, push Activate Previous Task in the toolbar. Task B is activated.
* Push it again, Task A is activated even though Task C is the previous task.

Based on the order of tasks in the menu and the name of the button, I would expect Task C to be activated. I suppose the icon suggests the actual behaviour, but I think the icon and behaviour should be changed.

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2012-01-14 07:02:01 EST

The order of the menu is weird since it doesn't show what is going to happen. We should also consider showing the the task that is to be activated in the tooltip like the editor history.

Comment 2 Sam Davis

2012-01-16 13:25:42 EST

I think if this is going to work like the back button in a web browser, it would make sense to also have a forward button, although that would take up more space.

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-mylyn