Bug 211722

Summary: [Trim] StickyView has irritating named attribute "id" - Should be called "targetId"
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jan-Hendrik Diederich <jan.diederich>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description Jan-Hendrik Diederich CLA 2007-12-03 03:58:15 EST 
The StickyView is like an attribute you can add to a view, to make it sticky. It has no "own" visualization, it just "targets" to another view. So I think it would be much more logical to mark the "id" attribute as deprecated, and replace it with "targetId" instead (or "refId"). This is always irritating for first time users of this UI element. Even for a user like me who knows what it does, it's always strange to read: "id". If you read "id" you expect the identifier of the element itself, not _another_ one!
Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 15:31:41 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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