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Bug 495740 - The ordering of types in 'Open Type' dialog is silly / wrong / annoying
Summary: The ordering of types in 'Open Type' dialog is silly / wrong / annoying
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 109670
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.6   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: JDT-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2016-06-08 15:14 EDT by Kris De Volder CLA
Modified: 2016-06-09 00:58 EDT (History)
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screenshot showing how bad the ordering really is (190.46 KB, image/png)
2016-06-08 15:14 EDT, Kris De Volder CLA
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Description Kris De Volder CLA 2016-06-08 15:14:38 EDT
Created attachment 262324 [details]
screenshot showing how bad the ordering really is

This has been annoying me for a looooong time. But I finally decided to report it as a bug (after all... how else are things ever going to get any better :-)

Here's the problem:

When I type something like 'IType' in the "open type" dialog's searchbox and there is actually a type called *exactly* 'IType' in my workspace... that type had better be at the top of the list rather than somewhere way down behind stuff like 

"IconType" or "ImmutableTypesMapper" and about 50 other 'similar' matches.

For this particlar example its especially annoying because:
 - the number of similar matches is rather large
 - there is really *nothing* that I can type in the search box to get the type I want at or even near the top of the list... since even entering the *entire* name of the type doesn't achieve that.
Comment 1 Noopur Gupta CLA 2016-06-09 00:58:11 EDT

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 109670 ***