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Bug 371008

Summary:	help user understand empty focused task list
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Thomas Ehrnhoefer <thomas.ehrnhoefer>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P2	CC:	shawn.minto
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	272089

Description Thomas Ehrnhoefer

2012-02-08 16:11:48 EST

Having a focused task list can lead to nothing being shown. New users accidentally focusing and/or not understanding what it means can get quite confused.

An extreme case is:
* create a query with some tasks
* focus task list
* delete the query and the tasks
* create the same query again right away
* observe that it looks like if no query was created due to the weakhashmap in the task list using the old task and thus no incoming happens on that query

We could either display a simple text (as in package explorer), or reuse that popup at the bottom of the task list (maybe with a link to unfocus).

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2012-02-08 16:26:14 EST

+1 for showing the popup on the bottom when the task list is empty. Otherwise we should show a message on the empty task list pane how to unfilter, e.g. with a link to disable focusing.

Comment 2 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