Bug 98544

Summary:	[Progress] Progress view has preference dialog with only one preference
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Douglas Pollock <douglas.pollock>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	markus.kell.r
Version:	3.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Douglas Pollock

2005-06-06 12:42:28 EDT

N20050606-0010, GTK+ 2.6.4, KDE 3.3.2, X.org 6.8.2, Linux 2.6.11

The progress view has a preference dialog reachable from the view menu.  This
dialog only contains one preference.  It would be more consistent with other
views for this preference to be controlled via a check box menu item in the view
menu.

Comment 1 Tod Creasey

2005-06-06 12:58:45 EDT

It was there as a proof of concept for view preferences. More will be coming
when I get a chance to work on it again.

Comment 2 Douglas Pollock

2005-06-06 13:11:42 EDT

This was introduced in 3.0, and it seems unlikely that more preferences will be
added to this view in 3.1.  I would recommend switching to a menu-controlled
preference for 3.1, to fall more inline with current best practices outlined in
the Eclipse User Interface Guidelines
("http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-UI-Guidelines/Contents.html") and
highlighted in Bug 98234 comment #3.

We are the user interface team, and people look to us for examples.

Comment 3 Tod Creasey

2005-06-06 13:17:22 EDT

And this our example of a view based preference. No one else used one and we
didn't have another candidate so we chose this one to ship.

Comment 4 Markus Keller

2006-01-17 14:10:43 EST

I agree with comment 2. As a user, I am not interested in a proof of concept for view preferences.

Other examples for view-based preferences can be found in the Variables and in the Synchronize view.