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Bug 58323

Summary: [ViewMgmt] View dropdown wrapping wastes space
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Ed Burnette <ed.burnette>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: michaelvanmeekeren
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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3.0M8 screenshot of view dropdown menu none

Description Ed Burnette CLA 2004-04-13 12:29:33 EDT 
In some cases the down-triangle view dropdown menu gets put on its own line 
(see screenshot).
Comment 1 Ed Burnette CLA 2004-04-13 12:30:38 EDT 
Created attachment 9442 [details]
3.0M8 screenshot of view dropdown menu

The view dropdown menu sometimes wants to be on its own line unnecessarily.
Comment 2 Stefan Xenos CLA 2004-04-13 16:32:12 EDT 
These are two different widgets. There are two possible solutions:

1. Combining them into one toolbar is problematic since they are provided by
different plugins with different lifecycles.

2. Allowing the view dropdown to be appended to the last line of a wrapping
toolbar is problematic since the layout code can only deal with rectangular
controls (even though the Toolbar doesn't use the space in its lower-right, the
layout still sees it as a rectangle).

Solution 1 is the more likely solution, but it requires allowing the
Presentation to manage its own toolbars. This is also desirable for other
reasons (it would simplify some code and give more flexibility to presentation
plugins)... but it will involve breaking API changes that would affect any
downstream view that makes widget lifecycle assumptions.

This will not be fixed for 3.0
Comment 3 Denis Roy CLA 2009-08-30 02:17:22 EDT 
As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.