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When hovering over a bug number I inconsistently see either (1) the bug summary - good, (2) "Open bug 186342 from repository" (3) no hover Variant (2) is fully redundant with the popup selector. Since the hover can save considerable amounts of time it would be great if it could consistently always show the summary. BTW, I'm also seeing slight inconsistencies between hovering over the word "bug" vs. the bug number (same for "comment"). Is that intended? Also, I'm not 100% sure whether all these things are actually provided by Mylyn. For the records: in the popup selector I see: (a) Open in Web Browser (b) Add Bugzilla Summary (c) Open Taks 186342 in Eclipse.org Just mentioning here - this bug is not about that popup but about the hover.
BTW, I'm using Mylyn version 3.7.0.I20111214-1125
> When hovering over a bug number I inconsistently see either > > (1) the bug summary - good, > (2) "Open bug 186342 from repository" > (3) no hover > > Variant (2) is fully redundant with the popup selector. > > Since the hover can save considerable amounts of time it would be > great if it could consistently always show the summary. Mylyn is only able to show the summary in the tooltip if the task is part of the task list, i.e. it is cached locally. If not (2) is shown. > BTW, I'm also seeing slight inconsistencies between hovering over > the word "bug" vs. the bug number (same for "comment"). Is that intended? Can you describe the inconsistencies you are seeing when hovering over bug/comment, possibly attaching a screenshot?(In reply to comment #0) > Also, I'm not 100% sure whether all these things are actually provided > by Mylyn. For the records: in the popup selector I see: > (a) Open in Web Browser > (b) Add Bugzilla Summary > (c) Open Taks 186342 in Eclipse.org > > Just mentioning here - this bug is not about that popup but about the hover. Where are you hovering over the links? In the task editor I don't get a popup selector but tasks open in the task editor on click.
(In reply to comment #2) > > When hovering over a bug number I inconsistently see either > > > > (1) the bug summary - good, > > (2) "Open bug 186342 from repository" > > (3) no hover > > > > Variant (2) is fully redundant with the popup selector. > > > > Since the hover can save considerable amounts of time it would be > > great if it could consistently always show the summary. > > Mylyn is only able to show the summary in the tooltip if the task is part of > the task list, i.e. it is cached locally. If not (2) is shown. I had assumed that Mylyn would have the same information as the bugzilla web UI, where *each* bug number has a corresponding title attribute in the html anchor. I read your comment as saying that Mylyn uses an interface to bugzilla, where this information is not available? Unfortunately, Mylyn doesn't seem to learn when I open the target task once. Going back to the link source I still don't see the summary, even after closing & re-opening that task editor. > > BTW, I'm also seeing slight inconsistencies between hovering over > > the word "bug" vs. the bug number (same for "comment"). Is that intended? > > > Can you describe the inconsistencies you are seeing when hovering over > bug/comment, possibly attaching a screenshot?(In reply to comment #0) see below... > > Also, I'm not 100% sure whether all these things are actually provided > > by Mylyn. For the records: in the popup selector I see: > > (a) Open in Web Browser > > (b) Add Bugzilla Summary > > (c) Open Taks 186342 in Eclipse.org > > > > Just mentioning here - this bug is not about that popup but about the hover. > > Where are you hovering over the links? In the task editor I don't get a popup > selector but tasks open in the task editor on click. It's all about the task editor. I also have a little helper installed, the "JDT/Core tools", which we use to maintain our build notes and also add bugzilla summaries to commit comments. Now this tool seems to sit in the background for *all* kinds of editors and if something looks like a bug number it offers some help. I guess both (a) and (b) come from that tool. The inconsistency mentioned above now could be explained like such: when hovering over the bug number, both Mylyn and the JDT/Core tools offer navigation, so a popup becomes necessary. When hovering over the word "bug" only Mylyn has a proposal and therefor a simple click without a popup is sufficient. So that part seems OK. Sorry for the noise. We might actually discuss abandoning that JDT/Core-specific helper functionality and just use Mylyn instead.
(In reply to comment #3) > I read your comment as saying that Mylyn uses an interface to bugzilla, > where this information is not available? The bug title is not part of the content of the comment/description. We are able to recognize the text as a link (as the Web UI does) but we don't query the Bugizlla database to get the title as that would be too slow.
(In reply to Sam Davis from comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > I read your comment as saying that Mylyn uses an interface to bugzilla, > > where this information is not available? > > The bug title is not part of the content of the comment/description. We are > able to recognize the text as a link (as the Web UI does) but we don't query > the Bugizlla database to get the title as that would be too slow. Fair enough. It's just sad that Mylyn has less information to show compared to the web UI, whereas opening a bug from bugzilla using Mylyn takes considerably more time. That's why just clicking on a link to see, what it refers to, is not always an option.
Unfortunately, the speed of opening bugs in Mylyn is limited by the speed of Bugzilla's API.
