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I am told, by users of Eclipse on Windows, that when you hold the cursor over the icon in the leftmost column of a row in the Problem view, you get the text of the problem in a tooltip. This is really essential in some situations, where the problem text is long, and there's no other way of viewing it. (It is totally useless to open the properties box, as the text is in a single-line field and is just as unreadable that way as truncated in a column.) But it doesn't work for me, at least not on Fedora Core 3 with Eclipse 3.1. This is becoming a MAJOR sore point for me right now, as I am using oXygen XML, which has very informative error messages, but at the moment the only way I can see those error messages is to 1) open the Properties window and 2) copy the text from the description field and 3) paste it somewhere else. That's not fun!
The GTK+ GtkTreeView widget does not yet support tooltips. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80980 Maybe the properties window could do word wrapping?
Who added the dependency to Eclipse Bugzilla 80980? It's not related to this one because 80980 is in the Gnome Bugzilla.
Heh, Tod you should read the links more carefully. :)
That GTK+ bug's fixed now, supposedly.
"As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009"
Sorry but this is how Linux deals with this and is a problem in all Tables and Trees in Linux, see bug 242031 (esp. comment2). You have several choices: - make the view/column wider - select the problem which will reveal the description in the status line - talk to the Linux guys to offer better support in their Table and Tree - switch the OS ;-)
Thanks Dani for a pointer to that bug.
