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Bug 379199

Summary: Create new content is empty??
Product: [ECD] Orion Reporter: John J. Barton <johnjbarton>
Component: ClientAssignee: Susan McCourt <susan>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 0.4   
Target Milestone: 0.5 M2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description John J. Barton CLA 2012-05-11 00:42:31 EDT 
I'm unsure what the left hand panel is doing, but having a cryptic header and no info is not useful.

It should be open by default; I don't understand why it has both a "hide-but-still-take-up-space" button and a tiny "hide-but-dont-take-space" control. Perhaps you can guess which one I'd vote for ;-)
Comment 1 John J. Barton CLA 2012-05-11 00:43:10 EDT 
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Comment 2 Susan McCourt CLA 2012-05-11 10:58:13 EDT 
We unfortunately have some bootstrap issues where the orion.eclipse.org experience is not the intended experience.  Waiting on a bug fix.  See bug 345622 comment 13 for explanation.

The intended effect is new user (no workspace content) sees the full view.
Users with workspace content see their favorites, searches, etc. and new content is closed at the bottom.  Unfortunately the experience for us at orion.eclipse.org is neither of these.

However your question does raise what should the default state of the view be when you have content.  I had thought closed until the user opened it, but we could keep it open until they close it (either way it's remembered after that).
Comment 3 Susan McCourt CLA 2012-05-15 16:01:13 EDT 
fixed with http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/commit/?id=fbcfa225ee772d16d93a67e9edfcf8fd8541a971

- the section is always initially open
- some explanatory info appears before the command list
- the only time the section will be initially closed if you closed it yourself (it remembers your last state.)