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Bug 39914

Summary: [ViewMgmt] Need checkmark in Window -> Show View
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Hirotaka Matsumoto <matsu>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 CC: debbie_wilson, Tod_Creasey
Version: 2.1Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Hirotaka Matsumoto CLA 2003-07-11 06:43:40 EDT 
Currently even if the view is opened, there is no checkmark in
the window of Window -> Show View. It would be nice if the checkmark
appeared on Window -> Show View to indicate which Views are currently
opened.
Comment 1 Simon Arsenault CLA 2003-07-15 11:26:04 EDT 
It sounds good to me. But it is not something the ui team has time to address 
for 3.0 release. Maybe someone from the community would be interested in 
looking into this problem and proposing a solution. If so, please send an e-
mail to the ui mailing list and annotate this bug report.

Using check mark to indicate which views are already opened in the perspective 
will cause some confusion. The behavior of Window > Show View > VIEWNAME is to 
show and give focus to the VIEWNAME even if its part of the perspective 
already. If we used a check mark, the user would expect that unchecking a view 
would hide/remove it from the perspective, which is not what it would do. So 
some other indicator would be needed instead of a check mark.

Also, we should apply the same solution to the Window > Open Perspective sub-
menu also. And to the Show View > Other... and Open Perspective > Other dialogs.
Comment 2 Tod Creasey CLA 2006-06-22 08:35:54 EDT 
There are currently no plans to work on this feature