Bug 224100 - 'Synchronize' view's 'Preference' popup dialog has an ugly header
Summary: 'Synchronize' view's 'Preference' popup dialog has an ugly header
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Team (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P4 minor (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform Team Inbox CLA
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: 228276 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2008-03-26 10:22 EDT by Remy Suen CLA
Modified: 2019-09-06 16:12 EDT (History)
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A screenshot of the dialog. (48.37 KB, image/jpeg)
2008-03-26 10:22 EDT, Remy Suen CLA
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Description Remy Suen CLA 2008-03-26 10:22:48 EDT
Created attachment 93592 [details]
A screenshot of the dialog.

This dialog can be accessed from the 'Synchronize' view's dropdown menu's 'Preferences...' menu item. I don't know what that header is for but it looks pretty ugly in my opinion. Maybe it should be removed?
Comment 1 Tomasz Zarna CLA 2008-03-27 04:46:16 EDT
 (In reply to comment #0)
> This dialog can be accessed from the 'Synchronize' view's dropdown menu's
> 'Preferences...' menu item. I don't know what that header is for but it looks
> pretty ugly in my opinion. Maybe it should be removed?

Agreed, I've never liked it either. 

As you're there I can think of couple other adjustment which can be made:
* making the dialog resizable
* using "Open Perspective" dialog instead of combo-box when selecting which perspective should be opened
* some of the top level labels in the tabs ends with ":" some don't

You also did have some ideas about it, didn't you?
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2008-03-27 08:37:40 EDT
(In reply to comment #1)
> * using "Open Perspective" dialog instead of combo-box when selecting which
> perspective should be opened

Actually, I like the combo control myself, but I guess reusing the existing code for dialog could be a worthy cause.

> * some of the top level labels in the tabs ends with ":" some don't

I think the labels should just be removed. If I click on the 'Team' tab, I don't need to know that this page is about 'General Team Preferences:'. 'Options for CVS comparisons:' on the CVS page might be useful, I don't know.

> You also did have some ideas about it, didn't you?

The idea I brought up yesterday was the wrapping problem in the 'Perspective' group on the 'Team' tab. But I guess that might be resolved if that control gets redone.

On the 'CVS' tab, there is a 'Allow models (e.g. Java) to participate in synchronizations' checkbox. Should the '(e.g. Java)' be removed since Team actually has no dependency on JDT. We have C/C++ and PDT packages at eclipse.org now so more and more people will be using Eclipse not as a platform for Java development but for other languages.
Comment 3 Tomasz Zarna CLA 2008-04-23 05:31:53 EDT
*** Bug 228276 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:12:34 EDT
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.