Bug 15655 - [Contributions] Java Search entry has multiple identical choices in Customize Perspectives
Summary: [Contributions] Java Search entry has multiple identical choices in Customize...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.0 M2   Edit
Assignee: Chris McLaren CLA
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Depends on: 35168
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Reported: 2002-05-09 13:55 EDT by Tod Creasey CLA
Modified: 2003-07-25 10:46 EDT (History)
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Description Tod Creasey CLA 2002-05-09 13:55:09 EDT 
Build 20020508

In the Customize Perspectives dialog if you Select Other->JavaCoding you get 4
entries called Workspace, 5 called Working Set and 4 called Hierarchy. There is
no way to know which is which.
Comment 1 Erich Gamma CLA 2002-05-09 18:59:43 EDT 
Dirk where do these actions come from?
Comment 2 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2002-05-10 03:34:11 EDT 
IMO the come from the new global Search menu.

Moving to DM.
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2002-05-10 04:59:30 EDT 
This is a Platform UI problem: the dialog which shows the content of an action
set takes the label of the action instead of a short description. This leads to
collisions  for nested menus:

Search
  Declaration
    Workspace
  Reference
    Workspace

There should be some tag in XML where I can set a short description which can be
shown in the action set dialog, eg.
  Search for declarations in workspace
  Search for references in workspace
Moving to Platform UI
Comment 4 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-05-10 11:43:16 EDT 
We had a suggestion from the usability team to show where the specified actions 
would appear, using two columns on the right (item name, and item location).
E.g.

Item          Location
Workspace     Search > Declaration Menu
Workspace     Search > Reference Menu

However, this unfortunately requires a major restructuring of how we do 
contributions, so it will not be done for 2.0.
In addition, I agree it would be good to show the description for the selected 
item.
Comment 5 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-08-12 09:42:29 EDT 
Reopen for investigation
Comment 6 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-09-24 12:25:23 EDT 
The problem is actually in Other->Java Search
Comment 7 Dani Megert CLA 2002-09-24 12:44:46 EDT 
correct. menu layout changed inbetween
Comment 8 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-09-24 13:30:40 EDT 
Description would not do the job as actions do not have descriptions.
Comment 9 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-11-22 14:16:26 EST 
We should try to make some improvements here for 2.1.
Comment 10 Simon Arsenault CLA 2002-12-11 13:02:56 EST 
Not going to happen for M4
Comment 11 Simon Arsenault CLA 2003-02-03 15:40:03 EST 
Not for release 2.1
Comment 12 Lynne Kues CLA 2003-07-25 10:46:17 EDT 
Fixed due to fix for [Bug 15996].