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Bug 58276

Summary: [Problems[ Tasks and Problems column sizes (widths) are not remembered
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Rustam <abdullr>
Component: IDEAssignee: Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: bogofilter+eclipse.org, fwp, gunnar, krzysztof.michalski, ndjc
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: 3.3   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows NT   
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Description Rustam CLA 2004-04-13 10:13:08 EDT 
All column sizes in the Tasks and Problems views are reverted to defaults (or 
their last saved values?) after I restart Eclipse 3.0 M8.
Version: 3.0.0
Build id: 200403261517
Comment 1 Rustam CLA 2004-04-13 10:18:49 EDT 
The viewState tag in workbench.xml is saved properly on close:
<viewState columnWidth0="19" columnWidth1="19" columnWidth2="487"
...
But as soon as I (re)start Eclipse, it is reverted to:
<viewState columnWidth0="19" columnWidth1="19" columnWidth2="227"
...
Comment 2 Ron Baldwin CLA 2004-05-24 15:43:21 EDT 
Problems and Tasks column widths are still not remembered in 3.0 M9.

In addition, the default widths in the Problems view don't take advantage of the
space available (the Description column should be wider).  The default widths in
the Tasks view look like they are trying to use the available space, but they
take up too much room, causing a horizontal scroll bar to appear (maybe because
they aren't accounting for the space used by the vertical scroll bar?).
Comment 3 Nick Crossley CLA 2004-09-20 23:05:02 EDT 
Are problems 58276, 57536, and 56863 duplicates, or at least related?  The way 
it works for me in 3.0 is that if I have either of the Tasks or Problems views 
open and showing when I quit and restart Eclipse, the column sizes are lost in 
that open view, and set to small widths.  Column sizes in the tab not 
currently frontmost are correctly preserved.  So my work-around is to make 
sure some other tab (such as Console) is frontmost before I quit Eclipse, then 
when I restart, then activate the Tasks or Problems tabs, the column sizes are 
intact.

However, this is a really annoying defect - especially when I forget to active 
the Console before I quit, and then have to restore my columns manually.
Comment 4 Ron Baldwin CLA 2005-04-19 12:02:09 EDT 
My comment 2 is still valid in 3.1 M6.  Can this be put on the radar for the 3.1
release?
Comment 5 Nick Crossley CLA 2006-11-11 12:33:57 EST 
This problem is getting worse in 3.3.  As reported before, it used to be that the Tasks and Problems column sizes were only lost if that view was showing when I restarted.  Now, in 3.3M3 (on a Mac), each time I start Eclipse, regardless of which tab is showing, the Tasks and Problems columns get resized to large values, so I have to scroll for miles to see the location at the end.  So I have to spend a minute or so resizing all those columns every time I restart.
Comment 6 Florian Priester CLA 2006-11-12 14:01:11 EST 
See also bug 128509.
Comment 7 Tod Creasey CLA 2006-11-13 09:04:09 EST 
Krzysztof could you have a look at this one?
Comment 8 Tod Creasey CLA 2006-11-28 10:22:13 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 128509 ***