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Bug 58151

Summary:

[New Look] Dock perspective buttons on the left

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Ed Burnette <ed.burnette>

Component:

Assignee:

Michael Van Meekeren <michaelvanmeekeren>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

aiproulx, daveo

Version:

3.0

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
A perspective changer widget suitable for inclusion in a status bar area	none
A perspective changer widget suitable for inclusion in a status bar area	none

Description Ed Burnette

2004-04-12 11:32:53 EDT

In 3.0M8 you can only doc perspective buttons up in the tool bar area (with or 
without a swish). This is a usability problem because of the extra vertical 
real-estate lost (often this causes the tool bar to go to multiple rows), and 
because it breaks the upper-left centrism of most languages and user 
interfaces. Previous versions docked these buttons on the left but you can't 
do that any more. If you want to allow some different options for the docking 
location that would be ok, but the default should be on the left as before.

(regression from 3.0m7, related to bug 52685 and bug 52780).

Comment 1 Florian Priester

2004-04-13 01:34:14 EDT

See bug 53039.

Comment 2 Debbie Wilson

2004-04-13 10:13:12 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53039 ***

Comment 3 David J. Orme

2004-04-15 16:09:28 EDT

Per MVM's comments in bug 53039, I'm expecting this bug to be reopened.  For
reference, there was a good discussion in bug 53039 about the best location for
the perspective switcher if it is not to be on the left and not at the top right
and not in a separate CoolBar below the main tool bar.

The gist of the conversation was that:

- RCP often applications define their UIs via perspectives

- Perspectives present a task-centric view of the work data

- Therefore, a task bar implementation for the perspective switcher, located in
the status bar area of Eclipse seems to be a reasonable, and possibly very
advantageous choice.

- If there must be exactly one place for the perspective switcher, we at least
owe it to ourselves to investigate the "task bar" implementation choice.

Please see the comments in bug 53039 for more detail.

Comment 4 Ed Burnette

2004-04-15 16:48:57 EDT

Reopening at David's request.

Comment 5 David J. Orme

2004-05-05 16:42:30 EDT

Created attachment 10306 [details]
A perspective changer widget suitable for inclusion in a status bar area

The attached code implements a perspective changer widget that is designed to
be included in a status bar area.  It also includes code to automatically work
around the following SWT limitations:

- Image transparancy on buttons is ignored by default
- Button cannot have a setImage() and setText() at the same time

Comment 6 David J. Orme

2004-05-05 16:53:40 EDT

Created attachment 10310 [details]
A perspective changer widget suitable for inclusion in a status bar area

This attachment fixes a fix to a bug that caused Image resources to be leaked.
:-)

Comment 7 Eelco Hillenius

2004-05-22 18:18:34 EDT

In M9 docking to the top-left/ left works well, but is not persisted between
Eclipse sessions, while text on/off is.

Comment 8 Michael Van Meekeren

2004-05-22 23:38:46 EDT

comment #7 should be logged in a new bug please.  This bug is fixed.