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eclipse-SDK-I20051213-0010-win32 I'm not sure how I did it but I invoked Eclipse, clicked around and the launcher was prompting me for my workspace from behind the splash screen. I couldn't make it happen again, however, I am able to click on the splash screen and obscure the Workspace Launcher, and this did not happen in 3.1 (but happens in 3.2 M3).
I am seeing this in 3.2 Release. The way I saw it today was during the restart after installing new features in UpdateManager. The splash screen did not appear at the top of my window stack and thus the dialog did not appear at the top as well. There was no task manager icon (windows XP) as well. I seem to recall that we had an iconin 3.1. This is a problem for us as we have had several users complain that Eclipse doesn't start up when, in fact, the problem is that they didn't see the dialog because it was under other windows. Ithink the priority should be raised.
With 3.2 and on Windows, there should be an entry in the task bar for the workspace chooser dialog. In 3.1, the workspace chooser dialog was parented off of an invisible ON_TOP shell which created accessibility problems - you could not get back to the workspace chooser dialog using only the keyboard. Since the splash screen is shown from a different OS process, it cannot be the workspace chooser dialog's parent shell. For 3.3, we may end up using SWT to show the splash screen which would allow us to do the proper parenting.
I am using 3.2 and there is no taskbar icon on windows.
Created attachment 46865 [details] screenshot of the taskbar entries (In reply to comment #3) > I am using 3.2 and there is no taskbar icon on windows. Very strange. When I start Eclipse 3.2, I see two entries in the taskbar while Eclipse is prompting for the workspace location: one from the splash screen and one from the "dialog" which is really a top-level shell. Just to be sure that we are talking about the same thing I am attaching a screenshot. I am on Windows XP too. What could be the difference between your setup and mine?
Maybe the difference is that I am running Java 1.6
I have not been able to verify the non-taskbar issue in Java 1.6 anymore. Not sure what I was seeing before. However we do still have the issue of the workspace selector coming up behind the splash screen.
(In reply to comment #6) > ... However we do still have the issue of the > workspace selector coming up behind the splash screen. This can only be solved if/when we use SWT to show the splash screen.
This bug was entered against Windows. I have been working with Linux lately (Kanotixs) which exhibits the same bug. It has really moved from slightly annoying to the most annoying problem I run into.
Reassigning bugs to reflect changes in ownership.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 109290 ***
