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Bug 390210

Summary:

New UI layout wastes an entire character row with white space when editor is split

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Glenview Jeff <junk>

Component:

Assignee:

Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>

Status:

CLOSED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

daniel_megert, deepakazad, emoffatt, gheorghe, karenfbutzke, pwebster, ramejan, tom.schindl

Version:

4.2

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows 7

Whiteboard:

stalebug

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Image showing wasted line	none
Here's what it looks like on my system	none

Description Glenview Jeff

2012-09-24 10:23:38 EDT

I'm not sure who thought it was acceptable to waste an entire line of UI space to show a tiny maximize widget and minimize widget.  This happens at the worst possible time, when users want to maximize their display.  See attached screenshot.

There's no excuse to waste an entire line like this.  Please figure out an alternate UI.

Comment 1 Glenview Jeff

2012-09-24 10:24:05 EDT

Created attachment 221416 [details]
Image showing wasted line

Comment 2 Paul Webster

2012-09-24 13:01:12 EDT

What appearance theme are you using?

PW

Comment 3 Glenview Jeff

2012-09-24 13:09:09 EDT

Windows 7 classic.  Does it vary by theme?

Comment 4 Thomas Schindl

2012-09-24 13:11:21 EDT

Paul I think the problem is the MinMax button in the MArea which is no different between the themes IIRC.

Comment 5 Paul Webster

2012-09-24 13:14:19 EDT

I thought so, but maybe not, it might be an interaction of SWT with win7.  We'll look into it.

PW

Comment 6 Eric Moffatt

2012-09-24 13:51:30 EDT

Created attachment 221433 [details]
Here's what it looks like on my system


What you are seeing is a bug (bad CSS perhaps?). For the most part we try to keep the affordance to a minimum impact...

Comment 7 Glenview Jeff

2012-09-24 14:03:26 EDT

Yea, it's unlikely I would have reported your layout as a bug.  From your lack of anti-aliased fonts, I assume you're on a Linux box?

Comment 8 Eric Moffatt

2012-09-24 14:05:57 EDT

Lol, XP...I live in the past...;-). Actually I generally like to use old, slow boxes to do UI development.

Comment 9 Dani Megert

2012-10-02 08:14:48 EDT

See also bug 362423.

Comment 10 Eclipse Genie

2020-07-27 11:50:10 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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