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Bug 234529 - improve overview of new comments in task list tooltip
Summary: improve overview of new comments in task list tooltip
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Mylyn (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC All
: P4 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.0   Edit
Assignee: Steffen Pingel CLA
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Blocks: 205861
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Reported: 2008-05-29 00:32 EDT by Eugene Kuleshov CLA
Modified: 2008-06-02 03:17 EDT (History)
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Description Eugene Kuleshov CLA 2008-05-29 00:32:44 EDT 
current task list tooltip only show last comment, which completely not informative and out of context, so you miss the beginning of conversation and can't see if there was anything else up there.

I'd like to suggest to show first unread comment instead and also say how many more comments in there. That should give a good overview when scanning trough the large pile of unread tasks.
Comment 1 Steffen Pingel CLA 2008-06-02 03:17:06 EDT 
Thanks for the patch. I have merged the test case and added the method for processing comment text: TaskDiffUtil.cleanCommentText(). The tooltip now shows the first unread comments and the number of unread comments, e.g.:

 Comment by Steffen Pingel: Bla bla (2 more)