Bug 19450

Summary:	[ExternalTools] menu should limit itself to the first n tools (perhaps n = 20)
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Chris McLaren <csmclaren>
Component:	Ant	Assignee:	Jared Burns <jared_burns>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	simon_arsenault
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	ui
Target Milestone:	2.1 M3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	19448
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Description Chris McLaren

2002-06-05 23:49:02 EDT

if a user adds a considerable number of tools, say more than 10 or 20, the 
external tools menu becomes unreasonably large. consider limiting this menu to 
the first 20 items on the rare occasion that a user adds many external tools. 
(i know we usually test with notepad.exe and a few others only, etc. but 
certain complex projects can warrant many tools with various parameter 
permutations..). 

this bug depends on bug 19448, as it would require a run button on the dialog 
for tools > n.

Comment 1 Chris McLaren

2002-06-05 23:55:52 EDT

clean F2

Comment 2 Simon Arsenault

2002-06-06 13:40:41 EDT

Defer until after release 2.0  This would require a preference setting to let 
the user control how many are shown...and even which ones are shown. We have a 
few people using External Tools with complexe projects and have yet to run into 
this problem.

We should consider this as part of the UI enhancement post release 2.0

Comment 3 Simon Arsenault

2002-09-06 15:09:42 EDT

User now controls how many there will be.

Note: new external tool work is not yet released to the head stream and won't 
for a while yet.

Comment 4 Jared Burns

2002-09-27 15:16:26 EDT

This bug has not been fixed and should not have been closed.

Comment 5 Darin Wright

2002-11-15 10:44:59 EST

This is now fixed. External tools launch history length/favorites are 
controlled in debug launch history preference page, where a tab appears 
for "external tool" history settings.

Comment 6 Darin Wright

2002-11-15 10:45:20 EST

Please verify, Jared.

Comment 7 Jared Burns

2002-11-25 21:38:33 EST

Verified.