Description Tom Hofmann 2008-09-01 10:47:18 EDT

Eclipse 3.4

When hovering over a method invocation of a generic method, the hover informs me about the formal type parameters of the method and the capture of the type params in the current invocation context. I often find that information superfluous and confusing, especially if all type parameters are bound to a concrete type. I would prefere hiding that information in that latter case.

Example:
- have the code below, with Java5/generics enabled
- hover over the invocation of Collections::min

------- Try.java ----------
class Try {
	void method(List<Integer> numbers) {
		Collections.min(numbers);
		Collections.unmodifiableList(numbers);
	}
}
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> the hovers says: 
"<Integer> Integer java.util.Collections.min(Collection<? extends Integer> coll)"

< I would prefer:
"Integer [java.util.]Collections.min(Collection<? extends Integer> coll)"

- I guess rendering the package qualification in a lighter color (grey) (if not removing it) would also help to avoid distraction.