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Build id: I20080122-1600 It feels to me that breadcrumbs are most useful when there is no context visible for an editor is presenting to me. By context, I mean a selection in package explorer, or a selected stack frame in debugger... When the context is obvious, like in Java perspective (default), when I see the package explorer next to the editor, the breadcrumb feels redundant, and mostly wasting one line of useful real estate (no offense here <g>). One way to improve this, maybe, would be to offer an alternate mode of activation for breadcrumbs (instead of always on, always off) : Breadcrumb activation: always | automatic | never So in Java perspective editor, breadcrumb would be hidden; but if I maximize the editor, it would appear then.
Another way to solve this problem would be to let the user customize his/her perspective to show/not show the breadcrumb. For example, one could choose to not show it in the Java perspective, but one could decide to show it in the Debug perspective.
For me breadcrumbs seems to be useful when outliner or package explorer aren't visible. I always work in the default java perspective so breadcrumbs seems to give me only redundant information. But when i maximize the editor breadcrumb would summarize the content of outliner and package explorer in only one line. An option which display breadcrumbs only when the outliner or the package explorer aren't visible would be interesting.
>I always work in the default java perspective so breadcrumbs seems to give me >only redundant information. I've mentioned that in the JDT and the arch call: the breadcrumb will be off by default. It's currently enabled so that people see it, play with it and give feedback. >An option which display breadcrumbs only when the outliner or the package >explorer aren't visible would be interesting. The main idea is to see where you are i.e. mainly a replacement for the Package Explorer and not the Outline view. The combination with the Package Explorer sounds interesting but we also have to keep in mind that people can use the Project Explorer instead of it.
For 3.4 M5 we will make their enablement per perspective. Let's see how much that helps for your scenarios.
I don't get how this is going to solve the maximized editor usecase.
>I don't get how this is going to solve the maximized editor usecase. It won't. It's rather addressing the other comments.
+1 on the original request (to support breadcrumb auto-activation when java editor maximized).
(In reply to comment #0) > Breadcrumb activation: always | automatic | never > > So in Java perspective editor, breadcrumb would be hidden; but if I maximize > the editor, it would appear then. +1 to the idea that Breadcrumb should be shown when Package and Project Explorer are hidden.
