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| Summary: | Column choices don't stay when creating a New Window | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Jared Martin <martin.jared> |
| Component: | UI | Assignee: | Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | dchaffiol |
| Version: | 4.3 | Keywords: | helpwanted |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows 7 | ||
| Whiteboard: | stalebug | ||
This should probably be a separate bug, but maybe it's related. If it should be a separate bug please let me know and I'll make a new one! When you reorder the columns in the actual view (instead of Configure Columns) it doesn't update the order in Configure Columns. Because they're now out of sync, when you try to reorder the columns in Configure Columns, the behavior gets very confusing, and the different columns are not in the right places. Also, the behavior if you try to have two Tasks views at once is very unpredictable. If you do: 1. Triangle -> New Tasks View (it asks you for a new name) - First note that the new view has its own settings configuration based on the new name, in Configure Contents. 2. Window -> Save Perspective As... 3. Window -> New Window Now there are two copies of "Tasks", rather than a second Tasks window with the new name you made it Step 1. Also, anything you changed in Configure Contents for the new Tasks window is destroyed, as it's now using the settings from the original Tasks window. Use case: I have about 10 open projects right now, and I wanted to have one Tasks window for half of them, and the other for the other half. 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. -- The automated Eclipse Genie. |
When opening a New Window, the selected columns under "Configure Columns" don't stay. The easiest way to reproduce this, is in Java mode (or any mode, I suppose): 1. Choose upside-down triangle in the Tasks view 2. Click configure columns 3. Remove a column, such as "Completion". 4. Window -> Save Perspective as... It will say "do you wish to overwrite Java"? - Choose yes, because the changes don't actually save anyway 5. Window -> New Window And you will see, in the new Window, the removed column has returned! This is strange because if I close the Tasks view within that particular Window, the columns remain; the columns only have to be reconfigured each time when creating a New Window.