Bug 27842 - [Working Sets] What is a working set type?
Summary: [Working Sets] What is a working set type?
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.4 M2   Edit
Assignee: Kim Horne CLA
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Keywords: helpwanted
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Reported: 2002-12-06 11:05 EST by Jed Anderson CLA
Modified: 2007-09-18 15:17 EDT (History)
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Description Jed Anderson CLA 2002-12-06 11:05:32 EST
Build: 20021204

When I open the New Working Set dialog for the first time (and let's say I know
nothing about working sets).  I have no idea which type to select.  I have to
guess which type I want based off of the name of the type.  At this point in
time, all of the names are very terse, so they don't give me much help.

It would make it easier for me to choose if working set types came with
descriptions so that I could click on each on, and a description would be
display which would help me choose my type. The dialog would have to be modified
in order to display the description, what I am envisioning is something like the
Label Decorations preference page.  For example, when I select the Java type, a
text area would populate with text similar to, "The Java working set type allows
the selection of Java and Java related resources, this includes .java, .class,
and .jar files."  Something like that would make me more confident in my working
set type selection.

As a workaround, we could suggest that more descriptive names be used.
Comment 1 Knut Radloff CLA 2003-09-02 17:18:00 EDT
Reassigning to Nick since he is taking ownership of this component.
Comment 2 Kim Horne CLA 2007-06-20 13:35:46 EDT
This seems perfectly reasonable.
Comment 3 Kim Horne CLA 2007-09-10 10:54:28 EDT
Fix in HEAD.
Comment 4 Kim Horne CLA 2007-09-18 15:17:06 EDT
Verified in I20070918-1300