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| Summary: | [Preferences] Combo control is confusing for preference search widget | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Randy Hudson <hudsonr> |
| Component: | UI | Assignee: | Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P5 | Keywords: | helpwanted |
| Version: | 3.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
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Description
Randy Hudson
Better than a combo-with-history would be a bar with recently selected or use-defined pages. The combo doesn't actually do anything interesting when you select a previously entered search. The user still has to find the page and select it with the mouse. Users are accustomed to pressing DOWN_ARROW in the open type dialog to move focus from the text area to the filtered matches control. In the preference dialog, the same behavior causes you to lose whatever you just typed. We use the combo throughout the UI as a way to keep history of previous entries. We would need to change this method everywhere I've given two examples of where it's not used. Given that the amount of text being typed in the preference dialog is never more than one word, I can't imagine anyone ever using it. Another possibility is to do something like auto-complete in Text Input fields of web browsers. The history is especially annoying in places like "Breakpoint Properties", where the workbench preference history is irrelevent, and the existence of a search field at all is overkill when there are just two pages. A global history does not make sense for a general purpose preference dialog that can have many different unrelated or filtered contexts. There are currently no plans for the Platform team to implement this feature. As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported. Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you. |