Bug 272291

Summary:	[compare] 'Compare With' menu entries not intuitive
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Dani Megert <daniel_megert>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Dani Megert <daniel_megert>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, markus.kell.r, tomasz.zarna
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	4.3 M7
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	fix candidate

Description Dani Megert

2009-04-15 06:59:03 EDT

I20090414-0800.

The following two 'Compare With' menu entries are not intuitive:

1) Other Element...
- this action compares the selected elements with each other in a compare
  dialog that does not offer structure compare (see bug 75601)
  ==> 'Each Other...' would be a better name here
- also, the name rather suggests that I can select one element and then a dialog
  allows me to select some other element to compare with (during 3.5 Compare
  offered such a feature but took it out again, see bug 264498)

2) Each Other
- this action does not compare the selected elements with each other but instead compares the files of each selected element with each other in a compare editor
  ==> 'Each Others Files' might be a better choice
- users selecting e.g. two methods or fields would expect to use 'Each Other' but it's not available. Instead they have to use 'Other Element...'

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2009-04-15 07:00:50 EDT

Marking as potential 3.6 candidate. Changing this should be done early in the release cycle.

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2013-04-16 09:29:56 EDT

For 2) "Each Other" is OK and actually better than "Each Others Files".

To avoid the confusion, I've renamed "Other Element..." to "Each Other by Member".

Fixed with http://git.eclipse.org/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.ui.git/commit/?id=f1dd40f5c635ffcfaebaac6aaf51a564f2d6299a