Description Ed Burnette 2004-06-02 17:24:55 EDT

In 3.0RC1 on Windows the code folding icons are as follows: a filled in 
triangle pointing right for folded text, and an empty triangle pointing down 
for expanded text. These should be changed to standard plus/minus icons for 
the following reasons:

- The triangles have a Java Swing-ish look about them that doesn't fit with 
the rest of the native SWT interface.
- Triangles are inconsistent with the plus/minus icons used in the Package 
Explorer and Navigator and several other views.
- They're also also different from other products developers are familiar with 
such as Visual Studio and Netbeans 3.6, including SAS products (Display 
Manager, webAf Studio, and Enterprise Guide). All these products use plus and 
minus icons for code folding on Windows.
- The filled and unfilled triangles don't look as good (admittedly this is 
subjective).
- They can get confused with the Java inheritance icon which is an empty 
triangle of the same size and shape (except it's a little further to the left 
and pointing up).
- They have less visual surface area than the standard plus/minus icons so 
they are harder to target with the mouse cursor.
- They give no hint about the keyboard shortcut for expand/collapse (Ctrl-
Keypad_Plus and Ctrl-Keypad_Minus).

It would be best to use native expand/collapse icons, i.e., the same ones that 
the tree and table tree widgets use, if that's possible. But always using the 
standard plus and minus icons would be the second best (and perhaps simpler) 
option. Either would be better than the triangles.

Please forward to the UI design team for consideration if needed.