Bug 9420

Description Simon Arsenault 2002-02-11 14:53:08 EST

Using build 2002-02-05 with the new team support for CVS.

In the old vcm support, there was a synchronize perspective. In the new team 
support, that perspective is gone. I know some people have pushed for this 
but...

The sync view is a view, not an editor, so it will open as a fast view (until 
you pin it somewhere). The view really needs to be fairly big to be useful, so 
pin it down is not an attractive idea as it will take up lots of space (unless 
you make it small, and zoom it when actually using the sync view).

If you want to see the resource history in the history view, then the problem 
gets worst. I have yet to find a layout where I can see both views at the same 
time (course, I've only been using the new team stuff for 3-4 days now...maybe 
with time I will).

Having a new sync perspective open each time does have advantages. There is 
plenty of space of the 2-3 views I need to work with. I can sync one project, 
then in the middle, sync with another project (opening a new sync perspective) 
to check if changes in that project have been released also. Of course, there 
is the down side that a sync perspective is opened each time, requiring the 
user to close it (probably less annoying that reusing the perspective for 
another project sync when the user was not done with it yet).

I know at the UI plugin, we are looking into this whole 
perspective/page/window/reuse/etc issues and have come up with some ideas but 
are still not quite there yet.