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Opened after discussion with Jin Li (UCD Toronto). Observed on V1 & V2 M5. The Eclipse diff browser (the one you get from replace from local, synchronize, refactoring, etc.) IMHO should be improved as follows: It always comes up too small to be usable. I'm always relocating it followed by enlarging it. (It seems to be defaulting to 50% of the screen real estate). Worse, it neither remembers the resizing in subsequent invocations nor can you double click on the title bar to maximize it (which would keep me from complaining). Given the number of times this dialog is raised during routine development, I think it is a major PITA / productivity hit. I would recommend: (Easy fix) Maximize via double clicking on title bar. (Better fix). Remember size and position for subsequent invocations. Dave Ings ings@ca.ibm.com
Fixed for 20020517: - location and size for Compare/Replace/Add dialogs is made persistent - Refactoring wizard remembers only size
Close (thanks) but no cigar yet (on F2). With Compare/Replace/Add the dialog is only persisted if you hit the system close X (or Alt-F4). It is not persisted if you press OK / Replace / Cancel / Restore. You have to specifically open the dialog, resize it, and then close it without doing any work. This is unconventional UI behaviour, it took a while to figure out, I actually thought at first the improvement hadn't made it into F2. With Refactoring, pressing Finish will persist the dialog, but pressing cancel will not. IMHO this isn't as serious, but may still confuse the user.
Changed behavior in SWT since fix was done: dismissing a Dialog with OK and Cancel no longer triggers a call to the Shell's shellClosed handler (where I would save the changed bounds). Fixed for 20020607 but net yet released. (BTW I'm saving the bounds even on Cancel). Needs aproval.
fixed reviewed by Dirk Baeumer. and released for 20020607
Verified against F3. Dialogs are OK. Synchronize uses a view.
