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Both the org.eclipse.ui.perspectives and org.eclipse.ui.views extension points support adding a description element to the extension. This information is currently displayed in the customize perspective dialog but could be used elsewhere. In particular, it might be helpful to display the description of the view/perspective in the open "other..." view/perspective dialogs.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Sorry - this one fell through the cracks for 3.2.
Deferring
Created attachment 78515 [details] Fix for perspective description in 'Open perspective dialog' Patch for Open perspective dialog - it is same as fix for bug 128529 for Show view dialog - user can display description for selected perspective by pressing F2. If no description is provided than 'No description available.' message is displayed.
Created attachment 78516 [details] How 'Open perspective' dialog looks after applying patch Example how dialog with selected perspective + its description looks like
Mass update - removing 3.4 target. This was one of the bugs I marked for investigation (and potential fixing) in 3.4 but I ran out of time. Please ping on the bug if fixing it would be really important for 3.4, and does not require API changes or feature work.
On a related bent, it is flabbergasting that the Show View dialog (Window: Show View: Other...) states "Use F2 to display the description for a selected view" but that none of the 50 or so available views (I'm including the SVN views in my setup) have a description! How hard can it be to add a description to each of these?
(In reply to comment #7) > On a related bent, it is flabbergasting that the Show View dialog (Window: Show > View: Other...) states "Use F2 to display the description for a selected view" > but that none of the 50 or so available views (I'm including the SVN views in > my setup) have a description! How hard can it be to add a description to each > of these? We've removed that hint from the UI in 3.6 - see bug 224546.
Remy is now responsible for watching the [ViewMgmt] category.
(In reply to comment #4) > Created an attachment (id=78515) [details] > Fix for perspective description in 'Open perspective dialog' Martin, thanks for the patch. Would you mind updating it so that the F2 suggestion label will only show up if there's actually a description available for the currently selected perspective? Also, please update the copyright headers of every file you modified by appending your information in the following form: name <e-mail> - bug number bug summary Remy Suen <remy.suen@ca.ibm.com> - Bug 12345 Bug description/summary follows here
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/82328
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/82656
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/82328 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=0dae44963a75cdb9076a74f5bb117ce6a44adc6d
Thanks Martin. Could you also upload a small entry via Gerrit for the M3 N&N? Repo can be found here: https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/admin/projects/www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/82769
added entry to 4.7 M3 N&N
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/82769 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news.git/commit/?id=9d50885558ab8cc218164a03e4a6f3d404cb20cb
A much better solution for users would have been to add a description field to the dialog.
(In reply to Dani Megert from comment #18) > A much better solution for users would have been to add a description field > to the dialog. And this would have avoided bug 521264.
