Bug 31183 - Run menu, sparse, redundant
Summary: Run menu, sparse, redundant
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 27450
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Ant (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Ant-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2003-02-06 18:45 EST by Kevin McGuire CLA
Modified: 2003-02-11 16:50 EST (History)
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The menu fully expanded (26.90 KB, image/jpeg)
2003-02-06 18:46 EST, Kevin McGuire CLA
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Description Kevin McGuire CLA 2003-02-06 18:45:20 EST
The "Run" menu has a few presentation problems:

1. Run->External Tools->External Tools...

Having "External Tools" as both a submenu and an item is confusing/redundant.
Having "Run" and "Run as..." in the same menu hierarchy is confusing.

2. The menu is extremely sparse.  I am going to guess you are going to say 
that its because nobody else is extending it.  Nevertheless, out of the box 
the Run menu looks kinda goofy.  The entire menu looks like:

Run
    External Tools
                   Run As
                         Ant Build
                   External Tools...


So first you have a pulldown menu with only one item.  Then you get a menu 
with two items, the first is named almost the same as the pulldown "Run/Run 
As", and the second is named the same as the menu you just opened "External 
Tools".  

When you open the first sub item "Run As", you get one item again.

For added fun, when you go to "External Tools..", one of the items in the 
dialog list is "Ant" again!  We love ant!
Comment 1 Kevin McGuire CLA 2003-02-06 18:46:11 EST
Created attachment 3345 [details]
The menu fully expanded
Comment 2 Darin Swanson CLA 2003-02-11 16:50:55 EST
note that this menu gets populated with External tool launch history items.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27450 ***