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The tool tip for the filter action should be "Show/Hide expert properties" since this is the only filtering we currently support The menu item should be "Expert" Note that the logic of the button will need to be reversed (Show expert when pressed) NOTES:
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It would be even better if it was full filter support like the rest of the viewers, not just expert. Where there should be an extension point to add to the list of filters. And the filter dialog allowed selection of these filters. Also the filter action should be "selected filter items should be NOT be shown", versus "shown", with the default being to filter out expert. That makes the most sense and is consistent with most of the other filter functions in other viewers. Plus the filter setting should be stored in the preferences for the propertysheet plugin (or somewhere like the other viewers) so that they will be persisted. It is annoying to select a set of preferences, and then have to do this each and every time I come up. But for short term, the bug itself is that the filter list does opposite of what it is supposed to do, as noted in the original text of this bug. It should be default of Filter out expert, not show all. The logic currently will either show all or show all but expert. When expert is not filtered, you still want to see all non-expert plus the expert, otherwise you want to see all except expert. You don't want the case where it shows ONLY expert. Thanks.
*** Bug 20109 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
In 2.1 M3, this has been renamed to "Show Advanced Properties" (meaning Show Advanced Properties in addition to the normal ones) in both the toolbar and view menu (off by default). Richard, we have no plans for 2.1 to add more general filtering capabilities to the Properties view. Please file a separate feature request for this if you want this to be considered for 3.0. Some concrete use cases would help. I've filed bug 26508 for the problem with settings getting lost.
