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Bug 548240

Summary:

[Preferences] Make it more apparent that "Description" text boxes are not editable

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Andrew Obuchowicz <aobuchow>

Component:

SWT

Assignee:

Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>

Status:

CLOSED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

daniel_megert

Version:

4.13

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Whiteboard:

stalebug

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Preview of changed background color for description text box	none
Description text box is already using the background color on dark theme	none

Description Andrew Obuchowicz

2019-06-13 10:11:07 EDT

Created attachment 278926 [details]
Preview of changed background color for description text box

Since the text in description text boxes must remain selectable (see Dani's comment on Bug 548047) I propose changing the background color of the widget so that it inherits it's parent's background color. 

This change should reduce the "attractivity" of the description text box, and let users focus more on editable UI elements.

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2019-06-13 10:47:15 EDT

You've marked "All" in hardware? Did you test that? On my Windows 7 machine the field is gray.

Comment 2 Andrew Obuchowicz

2019-06-13 10:56:58 EDT

(In reply to Dani Megert from comment #1)
> You've marked "All" in hardware? Did you test that? On my Windows 7 machine
> the field is gray.

No I appologize it was incorrectly set. This problem might exclusive to Eclipse on Linux.

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2019-06-13 11:06:53 EDT

Can someone check on Mac? Thanks.

Comment 4 Andrew Obuchowicz

2019-06-13 11:31:39 EDT

Created attachment 278928 [details]
Description text box is already using the background color on dark theme

I noticed that this issue is not present when using the dark theme.

Comment 5 Dani Megert

2019-06-13 11:37:01 EDT

(In reply to Andrew Obuchowicz from comment #4)
> Created attachment 278928 [details]
> Description text box is already using the background color on dark theme
> 
> I noticed that this issue is not present when using the dark theme.
I'm not using the dark theme.

Comment 6 Andrew Obuchowicz

2019-06-13 11:53:44 EDT

(In reply to Dani Megert from comment #5)
> (In reply to Andrew Obuchowicz from comment #4)
> > Created attachment 278928 [details]
> > Description text box is already using the background color on dark theme
> > 
> > I noticed that this issue is not present when using the dark theme.
> I'm not using the dark theme.

That's OK, I just wanted to point out this observation.

Comment 7 Andrew Obuchowicz

2019-06-24 09:49:34 EDT

*** Bug 548116 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Andrew Obuchowicz

2019-06-24 09:50:30 EDT

*** Bug 548118 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Andrew Obuchowicz

2019-06-24 09:51:00 EDT

*** Bug 548047 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Andrew Obuchowicz

2019-06-24 09:51:41 EDT

*** Bug 548048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Andrew Obuchowicz

2019-06-24 09:52:49 EDT

*** Bug 548045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Eclipse Genie

2021-06-14 02:14:43 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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