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Bug 317228 - Can't distinguish between 'Mac OS X' and 'Mac OS X - Cocoa' in bug lists
Summary: Can't distinguish between 'Mac OS X' and 'Mac OS X - Cocoa' in bug lists
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
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Product: Community
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Bugzilla (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
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Reported: 2010-06-17 14:24 EDT by Scott Kovatch CLA
Modified: 2010-06-18 12:01 EDT (History)
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Description Scott Kovatch CLA 2010-06-17 14:24:55 EDT 
I have a bug search that returns all of the current SWT 'Mac OS X' and 'Mac OS X - Cocoa' bugs. The problem is that if I select the 'OS' column for the report I see 'Mac' and nothing else. Sorting on the field helps a bit, but then I have to remember whether 'Mac OS X' or 'Mac OS X - Cocoa' will come first in the sort.

I'm not sure what the best solution is -- I would imagine someone sorting on Windows would have the same problem. In my case, bugs that are strictly in the Mac Carbon port have a lower priority than Mac Cocoa bugs, so the OS field isn't just an interesting datapoint.

If there were some way to set a short name for the OS field, and then use that in the lists, that would be helpful. There's always renaming to 'Cocoa - Mac OS X' and 'Carbon - Mac OS X', but that ends up making the Mac values different from all of the others.
Comment 1 Denis Roy CLA 2010-06-18 09:42:31 EDT 
The template sets the maximum length of the OS field to 4 characters.  I've extended it to 9 -- this also helps identify the various Windows flavours too.
Comment 2 Denis Roy CLA 2010-06-18 09:48:04 EDT 
I meant, I extended it to 14 characters.
Comment 3 Scott Kovatch CLA 2010-06-18 12:01:13 EDT 
Looks good! I'll take it. Thanks for the fast turnaround.