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Bug 56072 - Ant objects should indicate which are included in a separate VM
Summary: Ant objects should indicate which are included in a separate VM
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Ant (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.1 M5   Edit
Assignee: Jared Burns CLA
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Depends on: 82344
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Reported: 2004-03-24 19:00 EST by Darin Swanson CLA
Modified: 2005-01-13 14:27 EST (History)
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Description Darin Swanson CLA 2004-03-24 19:00:13 EST 
For Ant builds in a separate VM only certain extension point properties are 
passed to the build in the separate VM (those with eclipseRuntime= false)

This should be incidicated for Ant properties, Ant tasks and Ant types.
Comment 1 Darin Swanson CLA 2004-05-05 14:09:56 EDT 
Deferred to post 3.0
Comment 2 Darin Swanson CLA 2004-11-25 20:56:26 EST 
We are having users getting confused and noticing the inconsistency in the 
presentation of these properties etc when the config is set to run in a 
separate JRE.
Comment 3 Darin Swanson CLA 2005-01-07 15:32:33 EST 
Properties, tasks and types that are contributed and require the Eclipse 
runtime are prefaced with an Eclipse icon.

Changes to AntUIImages, IAntUIConstants and AntObjectLabelProvider.
Comment 4 Darin Swanson CLA 2005-01-07 15:41:40 EST 
Please verify Jared.
Comment 5 Jared Burns CLA 2005-01-12 15:00:03 EST 
Shouldn't there be some kind of explanation given about the meaning of the icon?
Ideally, you'd get some information when you hover the icon. But if nothing
else, maybe a footnote?

Without an explanation, it's kind of like saying:
"Now with only 3 thingies of fat!*"

without including the footnote:
"* 1 thingy is equivalent to 600 kilograms"
Comment 6 Darin Swanson CLA 2005-01-12 19:22:40 EST 
I have no plans to change this.
I see no way to provide this information in a non-intrusive way. Hover is used 
to provide the view of truncated labels (at least on windows).

The Eclipse way to document the meaning provide by an icon is to document that 
meaning in the help.
Comment 7 Darin Swanson CLA 2005-01-12 19:22:54 EST 
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Comment 8 Jared Burns CLA 2005-01-13 14:27:29 EST 
Verified.