Bug 27119

Summary: Icon for editor drop-down list
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Component: UIAssignee: Linda Watson <lindawat>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: airvine
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: 3.0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: other   
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Current look of "all editors" drop-down button none

Description Nick Edgar CLA 2002-11-25 14:11:07 EST 
For 2.1 M4, we want to add a drop-down to the editor area which will list all 
open editors, regardless of which tabs are visible.
This will help with usability problems when the tabs get too scrunched, or when 
the arrow buttons are needed to scroll the tabs.
We are also looking at customizing how many tabs are visible (i.e. show only 10 
most recently used editors in the tabs, but all editors are shown in the drop-
down).

We are currently using the same triangle icon as used for the view menus.
However, the editors drop-down is different, and we do not want it to be 
confused with the view menu.
We considered using a chevron icon (>>), but this tends to imply that the drop-
down excludes any items visible on the tabs.

Do you have any ideas for an icon which:
- conveys "all editors" rather than "remaining editors"
- will not be confused with a view menu (triangle)

See the attached screen shot for the current look.

Thanks.
Comment 1 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-11-25 14:11:47 EST 
Created attachment 2508 [details]
Current look of "all editors" drop-down button
Comment 2 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-11-25 14:12:07 EST 
2.1 M4 is Dec 13.
Comment 3 Nick Edgar CLA 2003-01-13 13:59:00 EST 
Editor treatment to be revisited for M5.
Comment 4 Linda Watson CLA 2003-02-18 22:25:02 EST 
Pls confirm, am assuming this is deferred now to 2.2?
Comment 5 Nick Edgar CLA 2003-02-18 22:51:21 EST 
Yes, it has been deferred.
Comment 6 Linda Watson CLA 2003-06-17 01:37:55 EDT 
Nick I'm leaving this bug in bugzilla for now as it will tie into the 3.0 
editor ui design work - let me know if that makes sense to you, or whether you 
need an interim icon regardless?
Comment 7 Nick Edgar CLA 2003-06-20 12:23:04 EDT 
We backed out of this drop-down for 2.1, so I'm closing this PR.  Although I'm 
working on an update for R3.0, I'll send new requests for any new artwork.

Thanks, Nick